windows xp, office 2003 Hindi

Microsoft has finally launched Windows XP Hindi and Office 2003 Hindi, a step which was being expected since long. Though I have not yet seen the release versions of either of these, it seems interesting and I am sure same will be the case with others who love to speak, work and live ;) in their own language.

Till the time we get hold of these softwares, we have BhashaIndia, which is a Microsoft Website that provides a number of tools to change Windows XP and office 2003 interface language to regional languages. Presently Hindi, Marathi and Tamil Language Interface Packs (LIPs) are available for Windows XP and Tamil, Konkani, Kannada, Telugu , Marathi , Gujarati and Punjabi LIPs are available for Office 2003.

It also provides tools, called Indic Input Method Editors (IMEs), to input text in regional languages using QWERTY keyboard. You can type Phonetic Hindi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada text using these tools. It also provides a lot of other tools for fonts, publishing and development.

Here are screenshots of how Windows XP looks like when Windows XP Hindi Interface Pack is installed on Windows XP Professional. Most of the dialog boxes, Windows menus, progress bars text, tooltips, and even Internet Explorer menu, status bar text are all converted to Hindi.

You must have a Genuine Windows XP version to be able to install this tool or else you may download it on any Windows 98, 2000, XP computer, which according to online check is validated as Genuine.

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