During 2008, Microsoft went live with its own general purpose machine translation system with a dozen language pairs. This solution is gradually being integrated into the Office environment, and may revolutionize desktop access to multilingual information for the company's huge customer base around the world. This technology rollout marks the culmination of two decades of R&D into natural language processing and MT which has rarely had much public exposure. TAUS has therefore completed a report on Microsoft's machine translation activity and it will be published for TAUS members in early 2009.