Application security
Posted on 17 Jan 2005 at 17:52
Simon Jones uses Windows facilities and Active Directory to implement workable levels of security in applications
The second and third improvements are the release of Language Interface Packs for Windows XP SP 2 and Office 2003, which completely translate all the menus, toolbars, dialogs and alerts of Windows and all the Office applications into Welsh. Microsoft has worked with the Welsh Language Board and the University of Wales, Bangor, over the past year to translate half-a-million words of application dialog into Welsh. The result is a fully Welsh PC, a boon for all the Welsh-speaking households and Welsh medium schools.
It is easy to switch Office between Welsh and English if you live in a bilingual household. In the short time I have had to play with it, I have not found an easy way to switch Windows itself from Welsh to English and back again, but I'm told that there is one to find. I do not think my Welsh is quite up to understanding all the dialogs anyway, as I have been learning for only two years at night classes.
The Welsh Language Interface Packs for Windows and Office are free downloads and are available from www.microsoft.com/uk/office/cymruwales/default.mspx. Now we need the Welsh Assembly Government to stump up the cost of upgrading all PCs in Welsh medium schools to Windows XP SP 2 and Office 2003, and the next generation of Welsh speakers can experience computing in their own language. Cliciwch Iawn.
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