Cultural barriers: Microsoft translates Windows into African languages, African multilingual Computer keyboard launched

Submitted by Boko on 21 April, 2006 - 01:38.

The assault on ICT language barriers rages on!

Microsoft translates their famous Windows XP software into different user-friendly African languages. The Zulu version will be launched in eThekwini today, with the Setswana version due in May and Afrikaans in June. Full story here.

An African multi-lingual keyboard goes on sale on the US market!

The keyboard inventor said that the device had been equipped with characters and tonal marks to type various languages ranging from English, Spanish, Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba. Read all about it.