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Logoscript and LCJ Partnership an essential player in Microsoft Windows Vista Localization

LCJ delivers 650.000 words per month and language to realize early Vista release date

Dortmund, Germany – January 31st, 2007 – LCJ, a provider of multilingual translation and turnkey localization solutions for local and global projects, today announced that it has played a significant role in preparing Microsoft Windows Vista for its worldwide release on January 30 2007. This achievement highlights LCJ’s leadership in international localization.

Marc Jonckers, Strategic Officer at LCJ, said, “LCJ EEIG was founded in 1999 and, in 2002, became one of only four Microsoft Premier Vendors worldwide performing product localization for the Microsoft Corporation. In this capacity, LCJ has made a considerable contribution to Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft’s new operating system, by localizing it into 11 languages.

Matthias Caesar, General Manager at LCJ, stated, “In order to deliver the localization of Vista to Microsoft, we deployed a full-time team that included 27 project managers, project engineers and language specialists. This pool managed the work of 212 translators and subcontractors, who accessed product betas via LCJ’s secure extranet."

“A key challenge was meeting Microsoft’s ambitious schedules,” said Caesar. “Using our proprietary workflow automation tools to manage processes and communications, including thousands of linguistic and technical queries, we delivered an output of 100,000 software words per language every eight working days for six months, rising to one million words per month during the summer period.”

About LCJ

LCJ Group, Europe’s largest independent localization solution provider, is a partnership between leading vendors Locatech GmbH (Germany), CrossGap srl (Italy), Jonckers Translation and Engineering sa (Belgium), and Logoscript S.L. (Spain). Founded in 1999, LCJ employs more than 200 employees. Their combined linguistic, project management and technical expertise has positioned the company as one of the foremost localization service providers in the world, capable of delivering turnkey localization solutions for software products, websites, and e-commerce applications, whatever the language, technical complexity and size of the project.