Arabic-L:GEN:MS Arabic Products

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1) Subject: MS Arabic Products
1) Subject: MS Office 2000 query

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Date: 24 Aug 1999
From: Paul Nelson <paulnel at microsoft.com>
Subject: MS Arabic Products

The good news for new products beginning with IE5, Office 2000 and Windows
2000 is that they are world-wide executables and you no longer require a
special Arabic version. Thus you can use the normal US support chanels.

I can empathize, and sympathize, with your support frustrations. Microsoft
ME in Dubai is your best alternative at this time.

Paul Nelson
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Date: 24 Aug 1999
From: "Mohammad A. Mohammad" <mohammad at aall.ufl.edu>
Subject: MS Office 2000 query

Now that the issue of MS products comes up again, I have a question that
some of you there may answer. Since I have to fork over the cash for Arabic
software from my own pocket, I was trying (in vain, so far) to find
affordable software on the internet.  Anyway, on one of the searches for
'Arabic software' one of the search engines came back with MS Office 2000
Premium.  Never mind the price for the moment.  The description says
something like '..it is now easy to create multilingual documents.'  On
that day I popped into Sam's Club to look at MS Office. On the lower
right-hand corner of the box (I do not remember whether it was Standard of
Professional) it says that in the 'language edition it can automatically
recognize the language the user is typing in and activates spell-check.
The box says this edition supports 25 languages.  The English edition, on
the other hand, says the box, does this only for English, French, and
Spanish.  My question is really simple: What does this mean?

Another related question.  On this search I stumbled on some auction stuff.
Many people are offering Microsoft Products at affordable prices.  They say
their porduct is the original factory-sealed product minus the box and the
manual. Oh yes, the sellers say that version they are selling is legal and
is registerable online. My question: can anyone enlighten me as to the
importance or significance of the box and the manual?

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