Arabic-L:GEN:Support for MS Arabic Products

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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1) Subject: Support for MS Arabic Products
2) Subject: MS Arabic Solution

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Date: 20 Aug 1999
From: Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject: Support for MS Arabic Products

Greetings to all / tahiaya tayyiba wa b3ad...

Re the informative note by Mahmoud Al-Batal at Emory University that the
"hemaars" at Glyph Systems had ceased their support (as anemic, surly and
indifferent as that "support" had been over the past few years) of MS Arabic
products. (Allah yudabbarhum...)

Contacting the generic, US-based MS web site is an exercise in futility.
Except for the work-saturated people in the MS Arabic Beta Program there, the
MS crowd in Redmond seems clueless and comatose about MS bilingual products.

A more likely and productive MS web site to contact for assistance with
Arabic-supported products is MS Middle East in Dubai, UAE at URL <
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/ >.

That site has  some reliable and helpful  "shebaab" there...(maa qassaroo,
abadaan),  although most advice available would likely cover only current MS
Arabic products (Windows 95 and newer).

I also would be glad to help advise from some background as an office-level
user of MS Arabic products and from a few years operating online into and
from Arabic.

Perhaps Mr. Gates can ask HRH Prince Awaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,
his friend and one of the prime foreign investors in MSC (as well as in the
unfortunate Teledesic firm that now is under Chapter 11 protection), to
sponsor a support site for MS Arabic products and users, either in the US or
the GCC/Gulf region

Hope this information helps in some measure.

Khair, in sha' Allah.

Regards from Los Angeles,

Stephen H. Franke

E-mail: < mutarjm at aol.com >

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Date: 20 Aug 1999
From: "Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject: MS Arabic Solution

SWITCH TO MAC!

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