Microsoft’s search engine, called Bing, now provides free online machine translation, similarly to Google’s machine translation service, designated Translate, and to the Hungarian Morphologic company’s tool. Bing supported 23 languages up to now, when it was recently expanded with the Hungarian language, among others, making it possible to not only translate from English to Hungarian and from Hungarian to English, but also to request immediate translations between any combination of the available languages.
Besides Hungarian, Bing was taught Romanian, Norwegian, Slovak, Slovene, Lithuanian, and Turkish, thus the program now knows thirty languages. Microsoft’s translation service can also be used by installing a Windows widget, which is to be placed on the operation system’s desktop. Live Messenger also enables a real time translation service, which makes it possible to carry on conversations in foreign languages.