Kurumi Inoue, Windows International, Japan Manager

My responsibility in Microsoft is to work on validating local
experiences for Windows client, Windows server and Internet explorer.

I have been working for Microsoft more than 20 years and all of my
career in the company have been with Internationalization to deliver the
world ready products in our global market.  Thus, Japanese typography
and Text rendering areas are also my priority scope.  Having a deep
understandings on eBooks standardization discussion up to date is very
important for my role in Microsoft. Starting with this April, I was
assigned to attend a Study Group of the Japanese Government (the
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) on vertical text layout
specification discussions including for HTML and CSS.  Therefore, I
would like to use this eBbooks workshop participant opportunity to
acquire the latest eBooks functionality requirements, understand the
backgrounds of global key stakeholders and leverage discussion context
for our further consideration opportunities.  And myself, as the
representative from Microsoft Japan, I would also love to establish a
good relationships among participants who from multi types of industries
to engage them with proactive involvements.