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Education | 25 August, 2006 [ 20:19 ]

Microsoft unveils Windows in Quechua


After MS Office had already been converted and tested by Quechua speaking students in Cusco in June, Microsoft now unveiled its Windows operating system in the same style in a different location: Bolivia.

- Microsoft Unveils Inca Windows Patch (by Dan Keane, Associated Press, San Fran Chronicle)
14:06 PDT SUCRE, Bolivia (AP) --

Just click "Qallariy" to begin. The word — pronounced "KAH-lyah-ree" — replaces "Start" on Microsoft Windows' familiar taskbar in a new Quechua translation of the program, which got its Bolivian debut Friday.

Microsoft Corp.'s chief of Bolivia operations, Nelson Cuentas, tried out a little of his own Quechua at the launch event, where translations of both Windows and Office were demonstrated on a large screen before a gathering of Quechua Indians in striped red and black ponchos and colorful hats.

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# milagros says :
27 August, 2006 [ 21:12 ]

I'm so happy that Microsoft has been developing a operating system for students in Quechua, this is a advantages for the mankind.And the best form for the comunication between peoples of differents languages.

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