The Need for Globalization and Localization

In the ever more competitive global marketplace, it is important for many organizations to be able to design software that can be used not only in the United States, but in a variety of other cultures as well. In many cases, organizations that will use the Compact Framework are based in or have offices in Canada, Mexico, South America, Europe, and elsewhere in the world. In these cases, developing an application that is globalized, or world ready, has three primary benefits:

  1. Rapid adaptation: If the application as been designed to be world ready, then its adaptation, or localization, to a new culture will be relatively straightforward. This means that it can be more quickly deployed and, in the end, ...

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