Core Support for Multilingual Sites - +1 I'm very happy with this coming change on the part of WordPress.

The owners of the WordPress sites (e.g. business owners) should only be paying for the translators to get REAL translation. And should not be paying to any translation software.

Translation is a very essential thing to do in WordPress. Since its online publishing, readers of website is most likely global in scope and it make sense that the software that supports this translation should be supported inside core by default. There should be no need to buy additional plugins just to get multilingual support.

Right now, business/website owners will be paying for the plugin license to add translation support for the website posts.

Then we will be hiring or paying translators to get the translation job done (another cost on website owners). This makes WordPress translation work a very expensive thing to do in the long run.

If this is supported inside WordPress core, this cuts the translation work cost dramatically. Owners will only be paying for a human translator.

This should obviously make a lot of WordPress users happy. And then you will see a lot of WordPress sites becoming multilingual with this change.