Windows 7 and Office 2010 in Local Languages

Microsoft South Africa is going local, with its release of 10 African language packs for the Windows 7 and Office 2010 suite of products.

The company has pulled translation teams from South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia to translate the company's new products for release on the continent.

According to Vis Naidoo, the citizenship lead at Microsoft South Africa, the company plans to have Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Afrikaans, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, kiSwahili and Amharic versions of its software up and running by the end of 2011.

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