It was a long pending demand from India. We need a low cost OS for India. Indians can not afford the heavily priced in US$ equivalent - converted to Indian Rs - software from Microsoft and other biggies like Adobe, Macromedia, Quark, etc. Finally, Microsoft has relaised that if it has to reach the 90% of the Indian population who do not speak English, they need to bring down the low cost versions of Windows. Microsoft announced the availability of started edition of Windows for India. Bill Gates announced 7-point formula for Indian when Dayanidhi Maran, the IT minister of India, visited Redmond, Microsoft. This is a good step. These will help the propagation of IT in India and will help in reducing the digital divide.
Posts published in November 2005
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Q: I have enabled Indic as per the instructions given in the tutorial section. But I have not able to type in Indic. What else is missing?
A: You have just enabled Indic feature in Windows XP by following the tutorial.
Q: I have bought a PC. The vendor has loaded the system with Windows XP. I was told that Indic features are available for Windows XP. I want to buy that. Where can I purchase the Indic software for Windows XP?
In the previous tutorial you have learnt how to enable Hindi, an Indian language, in Windows XP. In this article we will learn how to type in Hindi. The procedure is the same for all other Indian languages supported by Windows XP.
Windows XP comes with facilities to use Indian languages. But the Indic capabilities are not enabled by default. One has to either enable this at the time of installing Windows XP or later. The step-by-step instructions will walk-through enabling Hindi on Windows XP. The procedure is the same for all other Indian languages supported by Windows XP.