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# Microsoft and internationalization
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/microsoft-and-internationalization/
- Published: 2004-09-11T10:26:08.000Z
- Updated: 2004-09-11T10:26:08.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc, #MPOW

Operating in an international environment raises many issues. Of course, this is a big factor for OCLC. There is an interesting article in the Guardian about some of the issues that Microsoft has run into through a lack of awareness of particular local political or geographic contexts.

> In a frank assessment of the company’s problems in trying to be a global player without offending local sensibilities, Tom Edwards, its senior geopolitical strategist, said employees’ lack of basic geography was to blame. \[[Guardian Unlimited | Online | Microsoft pays dear for insults through ignorance](https://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1286066,00.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]