It's not just Word:
Microsoft to introduce Hindi in Windows 2000
NEW DELHI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's (NasdaqNM:MSFT - news) 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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