January 16, 2009 by
Jason
Building on the first public Beta milestones of the next iterations of Windows client and server operating system, Microsoft has made available for download the Language Interface Packs for the current releases of Windows 7. The Redmond company is offering Windows 7 Beta (7000-0-081212-1400) Language Interface Packs, also a Beta, for all the flavors of Windows 7 client Beta and Windows 7 Server Beta (Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta) that were released to the general public at the end of the past week, on January 9, and January 10, respectively.
The Windows 7 Beta (7000-0-081212-1400) Language Interface Packs represent the evolution of the LIPs already available for previous releases of the Windows operating system, including Windows Vista. Initially made available in the second week of January 2009, the LIPs for Windows 7 Beta will permit end-users to tailor the platform to their specific language.
At this point in time Microsoft is allowing for Windows 7 Beta to “talk†to testers not only in English, but also in German, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, and Taiwanese, via the Language Interface Packs. Read More»
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Microsoft is offering Windows Vista users no less than 17 User Interface (UI) Language packs designed for integration with the operating system. However, the company informed that only the 32-bit editions of the latest Windows client can have LIPs implemented. In fact, the Language Interface Packs are restricted only to the English language versions of 32-bit Vista, with no support for the 64-bit variant of the operating system or for previous Windows releases. The 17 LIPs can be installed on Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, but only 15 of them also play nice with the Starter SKU.
Albanian, Assamese, Bosnian – Cyrillic, Bosnian – Latin, Gujarati, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Kazakh, Macedonian, Malay, Marathi, Serbian – Cyrillic, Tamil, Uzbek – Latin, Vietnamese and Welsh are all the language UI packages offered for Windows Vista. With the exception of Icelandic and Welsh, all can also be deployed on the Vista Starter edition. The rest of the Vista SKUs are supported by default. Read More»
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One of the aspects correlated with the ubiquity of the Windows operating system is the fact that the platform is tailored to specific markets around the world. In this context, Windows Vista features no less than 36 different languages, designed to produce an intimate experience for end users. All the editions of Vista can be set to a specific language, with the Ultimate SKU being able to switch between linguistic configurations. But in addition to the resources integrated by default in the latest Windows client as well as those served through Windows Update, Microsoft is now making available the Windows Vista Language Interface Pack for the English version of the operating system.
“Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP) [integrates with the] English versions of Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business and Enterprise. Many Vista LIP languages are also available for Windows Vista Starter,” Microsoft informed. Read More»
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