Interview with "Paragon"

The company "Paragon" is engaged in the development of applications for various platforms. The most famous products - Partition Manager, NTFS for Mac, «SlovoEd» and others. We asked a few questions of the company. I answered them marketing director Dmitry Bekhterev. For which he thank you :-)

You have recently released a new version of the dictionary "SlovoEd" for the Mac platform. Previous caused a lot of complaints from users, mainly because of the interface. What changes in the new version?

We have worked very closely over the interface - added new icons, improved navigation, search, pop-up system, as, indeed, and much more. Henceforth all pay more attention to this issue, to take into account the maximum number of user feedback "poppies". Both in Russia and abroad. We are well aware that we still have a lot of something to have to work, but do not intend to stop there.

With regard to the content - a new version of "SlovoEd" for Mac OS X includes 54 dictionaries from leading publishers (PONS GmbH, Dario de Judicibus, Larousse Editorial, Millennium, Russian language Media et al.) For more than 20 languages. The total number of words voiced in this case is about 100 000, which, as you know, not enough.

Our main advantages: high-quality and unique content for the Russian market, the transition to a free the new version, as well as the continuous improvement of our products through the efforts of Russian developers.

If we talk about Dicitionary.app, not to mention the fact that an ordinary user will suffice difficult to find in the public domain and add them to this app dictionaries from the world publishers. For example, PONS or Langenscheid, which we have.

In addition to content we also allocates a very convenient system of pop-up windows. It works with a maximum number of applications on the Mac OS. In particular, with the same browsers - Safari, Opera, Mozilla et al. It is understood that the list we are trying to constantly expand.

As for the free transfer, owners of previous versions of "SlovoEd" for Mac OS will be able to use the new (7.5) without any additional cost. That is, a person need only run the update system, or else the program will offer him to download and install the new version. Remove the old is not required.

"Dictionary" is presented on different platforms, including Windows, Mac, iOS (iPhone / Touch / iPad). Do you have any plans in some integration? Will custom cards and bookmarks synchronization (as did Apple with iBooks)?

In fact, we already have ideas for the integration of this functionality. It is possible that he will appear in future versions.

Can you tell us about the plans for the development of Mac-direction?

Once we mainly talk about the "SlovoEd" for Mac OS - can not say about the new version, 8.0, the development of which we have already begun. Clear release date yet will not name, but we will try to take into account almost all the reasoned criticism of the version 7.5. In particular, with respect to the program interface.

On one side will be left and the content - this is one of our main advantages, which we do not intend to lose. Of course, it will be expanded, and only at the expense of premium content. Soon we'll add a line of electronic products (especially for Mac OS) under the brand of "XXI Century Dictionaries", created in collaboration with AST-Press. This is the only example in recent years, joint efforts on building a development process in Russia vocabulary content and display it in the electronic segment.

Not far off, and the appearance of the Mac branded dictionaries. For example, Langenscheid or Berlitz. This will separate the products that will be on sale, along with the same "SlovoEd" for Mac OS.

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