Microsoft Ireland plays a central role in the launch of Windows Vista and 2007 Office
Almost 1,000 Irish Based Employees play a role in getting Microsoft’s latest Operating System to over 37 countries in 28 languages in time for global launch
Core Development Work for Windows Vista done at Microsoft’s European Development Centre in Sandyford
The European Development Centre has been working on a number of different development projects for Windows Vista. The Dublin based team has had sole responsibility for the design, development and delivery of the date and time control panel’, time zone data and the new date and time reference user interface. They also delivered the Regional and Language Options control panel applet in Windows Vista which allows users to configure how Windows displays numbers, dates, time, set location, choose keyboard, install additional display language support and change system locale ensuring that Windows Vista will work in all European cultural environments.
The EDC also supported the new Windows Smartcard Framework by providing a quality certification programme for vendors that wish to develop modules for this new architecture. Testing the European wireless and ISDN network drivers that are included in the Windows Vista product was also done here as was the development of the scanning feature into Vista Media Center