Microsoft to Launch Applications in Three Nigerian Languages (fwd link)

Tue Apr 8 18:00:31 UTC 2008

Microsoft to Launch Applications in Three Nigerian Languages

HANA, 8 April 2008.

Microsoft Corporation plans to include Nigeria's dominant languages -Yoruba,
Hausa and Igbo in the Microsoft Office application suite before year- end.

MS Office is a group of applications consisting of Word, a word processing
application; Powerpoint, used for presentations; Excel, a spreadsheet
application, and Access, an application used for databases. By the inclusion of
the indigenous languages, users of the applications will be able to see them
displayed in their preferred languages and commands can be given and received
in any of the local languages.

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