Comments on: Is Wordfast divorcing Microsoft Word?

By: Wolfgang

Wolfgang — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:02:44 +0000

As far as I know Wordfast 6 will run on the Java platform and the files will be OpenSource-compatible. So there shouldn’t be any problems with operating systems.

By: Irishpolyglot

Irishpolyglot — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:05:55 +0000

I’ll definitely be keeping my eye on this!! The *only* reason I use Virtualbox in Ubuntu is to use Wordfast from within Word (way too many layers, isn’t it!!). But as you say, standalone is quite a promise!!! Are they shifting their focus from the translation plugin to a fully capable word-processor, with dictionary, spell-check, docx compatibility, no problem rendering tables etc.? I think it would be more logical if they were making the same plugin to work with Openoffice. Time will tell! Thanks for the heads-up

By: Wordfast: seeing other platforms « Thoughts On Translation

Wordfast: seeing other platforms « Thoughts On Translation — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:57:49 +0000

[...] Marrero, Wordfast’s Director of Sales and Marketing, and she filled me in on the upcoming changes in Wordfast 6.0. Beginning with that release, Wordfast will have two versions, a “classic” version that [...]

By: Rob Grayson

Rob Grayson — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:30:52 +0000

Hi Corinne,

This kind of thing interests me as I have very recently (last week) left the world of PCs and switched to a Mac. (For info, I continue to use a Windows-based CAT tool running within a virtual environment.)

I suspect that Wordfast will still require Word, but that it will work with Word for Mac OS X as well as Word for Windows. In which case, when they say “platform independent”, what they really mean is, “Too bad if you use something other than Windows or Mac OS X”.

I may be wrong, but that’s my guess…

Rob