Speaking of pivotal, both IBM and Microsoft poured an ungodly amount of money into translating Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp to a great number of languages, as far a

Speaking of pivotal, both IBM and Microsoft poured an ungodly amount of money into translating Windows 95 and OS/2 Warp to a great number of languages, as far as I am aware this didn't happen before. I was a journalist at a computer monthly in Hungary at the time. Now, MS and IBM teams were not talking to each other, in fact Microsoft was working in "ivory tower" mode: the translation happened in house almost in secrecy. IBM was at least partially outsourcing to local firms who were coordinating with us. An awful lot of the very language pertaining to computers were invented or re-invented due to this. Yes, during the 80s of course there were already computer magazines and even the TV was talking about but it was absolutely awful and didn't fit the language well. The effort IBM put in was, well, pivotal. We didn't get paid -- but we had a major advantage of turning the magazine into readable and very soon we have eclipsed everyone else on the market. Of course this had other reasons but the effects of this can not be dismissed.