Mohan:
Congratulations on ITWO.
Did you notice the ICGE performance yesterday? I'm in that.
Here is something interesting:
NEW DELHI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's (NASDAQ:MSFT)Windows 2000 software platform, due to be launched in February, will be able to carry programming applications in Hindi and eventually in other Indian languages, company officials said.
They told a news conference late on Tuesday that the
operating systems software, representing the next version of
the company's NT series of network computing platforms, would
be "completely Hindi and Tamil enabled."
Though the platform will not immediately match all the
features offered in the Japanese and Chinese versions of
Windows, the software will offer APIs, or application
programming interfaces, which serve as hooks or roadmaps for
developers making end-use software.
So far, Hindi fonts have been superimposed on the English
script operating systems but Windows 2000 will have the
language script, called Devanagari, as part of the basic
operating system.
"Windows 2000 can think Hindi, talk Hindi," said N.B.
Sundar, marketing manager at Microsoft's Indian unit.
Microsoft will also introduce a Hindi version of its
popular MS Word word-processing application as part of the
Windows 2000 package, which can check for syntax, spelling and
grammar, he said.
Sundar said Microsoft planned to introduce software enabled
for regional languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya,
Telegu, Kannada and Bengali in future.
Microsoft officials said the Hindi version conformed to the
standards set by Unicode, an independent body on languages in
software programming.
"Each of Windows 2000's APIs support Unicode," Microsoft
consultant Harish Vaidyanathan said.
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