This article was written to frame the Reactor session, but it also helped me clarify the problem.
Technical documentation translation is not just text conversion. Developers need translated README files, adjusted links, preserved paths, valid Markdown, image text handling, and a folder structure that makes sense after the source changes.
That is why Co-op Translator mattered to me. It was not trying to make a single translation look impressive. It was trying to reduce the operational cost of multilingual technical projects.
This was where I started speaking about localization as infrastructure. The phrase came later, but the idea was already there.
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Unlocking Multilingual Mastery with Co-op Translator at Microsoft Reactor