Comments on: Microsoft Banishes Japan from Language Pack Market?

By: freedomwv

freedomwv — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:27:46 +0000

Yes open office is great and it is free. Although, its limitations are enough to make me crazy sometimes. I still really like open office despite its limitations.

By: Lester

Lester — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:17:45 +0000

Apparently Google is really making inroads with language translation. Now that Micrsoft withdrew their takeover bid of Yahoo! they should maybe ask Google for some help in that area. Seriously though, I secretly hope that Google eats Microsoft and doesn’t get indigestion.

By: ジェイソン (Jason)

ジェイソン (Jason) — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:13:58 +0000

It’s a shame that language packs are so darn hard to make. If Microsoft would help people by providing a tool to create a language pack (or even just allowing users to customize their own menu names, error messages, etc.), then issues like this would not be a problem.

Of course, I’d immediately make a 50-Cent language pack for Office and Windows. Could you imagine getting an error message that would say: “Hey! Where da paypahz at, yo?”

By: Lester

Lester — Fri, 23 May 2008 01:13:26 +0000

Yes, this shouldn’t be a problem for me as it will be installed in my new notebook so my wife can logon in Japanese. Her English is better than my Japanese so she can cope. Mind you, I’ll have less time on this new notebook as a result… hmmm!

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:58:24 +0000

Just remember that Ultimate will let you switch the language for Windows, but not for Office. We’re still waiting for that darn language pack.

By: Lester

Lester — Fri, 23 May 2008 00:23:54 +0000

My wife brought home a Toshiba notebook from Japan a while ago with XP and the 2003 version of Office. I had to go out and get a new notebook with Vista Premium and bought Office 2007 in English as my Japanese was not nearly sufficient to navigate the Toshiba’s menus and dialog boxes with any efficiency. Anyway, after using Word and Excel 2007, I do really like the way it’s laid out. I think that they should do away with the words altogether in the menus and use universally understandable symbols like traffic signs to indicate what function or tool that you want to use. I mean, they’re half way there. But I didn’t know about the language switching capabilities of Ultimate. I may have to upgrade…

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 18 May 2008 23:51:19 +0000

Shane, thanks for that!! I will be getting Sky perfect soon but it is just that I’m in my office a lot and would love to watch it here too(Works comes a distant second haa haa haa). I watch BS-1 a lot and get reasonable coverage and I suppose it is just that I subscribe to the MLB live and then after paying, find out that japan has blocked just about every game and even games they do not broadcast aaaaaah.
i will check out the link and thanks for your efforts!!!

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:06:26 +0000

Sorry for the duplicate comment Nick. I thought it got eliminated because of too many links….

I can just see Keith now huddled over his office computer with the game on - that would go over well I’m sure (not like the guy who got fired over porno or anything, of course)!! Maybe he should just get head phones and find the radio broadcast for his favorite team and stream it???? I have listened to a couple that way and it works fine. If Keith wants to email me feel free to share my address.

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Thu, 15 May 2008 11:02:32 +0000

I think you’d be surprised Mum. Office 2007 is exceptionally user friendly, at least once you learn where things are. Our problem is that it’s all in Japanese!

By: Nick Ramsay

Nick Ramsay — Thu, 15 May 2008 10:59:43 +0000

Sorry things got a bit skewed and your comment didn’t come up first time.

SkyPerfect sounds like the best solution, but I can’t see Keith dumping his cable connection and getting SkyPerfect. Besides, knowing Keith, he’s hoping to watch the baseball from his office computer rather than at home.