I wanted to share the news which I read in ET, today. Please go on.....
Ratul Rudra
Plz. read on .........
Microsoft plans Office, Windows in desi Bhasa. (The Economic Times, Pg.5, 30/09/2003)
Microsoft is rolling out interfaces for its flagship products � Windows and Office (software which runs about 90% of the Desktop PCs) � in 14 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Bengali. Till now Microsoft Office is available only in 38 languages worldwide.
Launching Project Bhasa, Microsoft will focus its efforts along the four key areas, primarily, product localization, govt. collaboration, academia/developer integration and building a local language IT Eco System through community/industry participation. The company had announced an investment of Rs.2000 crores, largest outside US �not counting manufacturing activities� to boost education, partnerships, innovation and localization during Gate�s visit to India.
�The company had been extending the reach of IT across a diverse set of multilingual communities in languages,� said Microsoft Chief Technology Officer Craig Mundie. �Under the product localization effort, Microsoft will roll out interfaces for its flagship products � Windows and Office � in 14 Indian languages, including Hindi, Tamil and Bengali, � Microsoft India Managing Director Rajiv Kaul said. Other language interfaces which would be made available for Windows and Office include Assamese, Gujrati, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Oriya, Sindhi, Telugu and Urdu. Microsoft will work with the Centre for adoption of Unicode as common development standard for local language applications.
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