Tablet PC to learn more languages
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Microsoft is working on software that will add basic support for eight more languages to its Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, it said Wednesday. The Multilingual User Interface & Recognizer Pack, due out in July, will allow users to switch the language of the user interface to Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish or Swedish, Microsoft said in a statement released at the CeBIT technology trade show here. The user interface includes help files and dialog boxes in the operating system.
The update pack, of which Microsoft released a beta version Wednesday, will also include handwriting recognition for Spanish, enabling users to translate notes written in Spanish into text. Handwriting recognition for the other newly supported languages won't be out for a while. A Dutch version, for example, won't be available until 2005, a Microsoft spokesman said.