Translations of Windows 8 user interface available for 57 languages

re: Translations of Windows 8 user interface available for 57 languages

akerbeltzalba — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 12:42:59 GMT

Yay, the language pack for my language has been released. Oddly enough ahead of Irish and Welsh, which are normally ahead of us :)

re: Translations of Windows 8 user interface available for 57 languages

MN — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 01:18:08 GMT

Thanks for that feedback, Michael. Going forward we will try to be clearer what LIPs have actually released.

re: Translations of Windows 8 user interface available for 57 languages

Michael Bauer — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:20:00 GMT

It would be nice if the MS site advertising these packs actually stated which ones are available and when the others should be available. At the moment it's total guesswork. I test-upgraded a laptop to see if the LIP for my languages was there but it turns out, not yet and no one knows when.

So browny points for including more languages, thumbsdown for not informing the end users properly.

re: Translations of Windows 8 user interface available for 57 languages

PR — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:20:50 GMT

If I am not mistaken, but Microsoft used to advertise its terminology management approach as being concept-based rather than term-based. If that is the case, terms are not "translated" but rather, a designation is found that can identify the concept in the target language. It would be more appropriate to say, "if you want to discover the Japanese term for picture password".