On Sat, 5 Sep 2015, Florian Pelz wrote: [...]
Yes. However, as Alex said, there are some "grossly horrible translations" which we may not want to copy. Also, often we're not even allowed to just copy Windows because of copyright. In this case looking at Windows was a good idea though (even if it does not help).
Where there is overlap, looking at what the Linux desktop environments (or Mac OS/X) do is also a good idea. Using similar wording will help blend them with rest of the environment. We can hope that the translators from the GNOME / KDE community have done a better job than Microsoft.