Does Winblows XP give you language choice like X?

[Speedy]

Or do you have to buy a localized version. My wife needs a Spanish version of XP for work (menus, help, dialogue boxes, etc. need to be in Spanish.) I have never used XP so I don't know if it has the language install options like X does when it is first installed (I've never used any of those either except English).

[onthedownlow]

Oh, you must mean Windows XP?

Yes. Easy.

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/hands...lsupp.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refer...ngeUI.mspx

I love the admission of never having used Windows XP, but you pin the 'Winblows XP' stereotype on it.

Nice. /s

[Article Accelerator]

onthedownlow wrote:
I love the admission of never having used Windows XP, but you pin the 'Winblows XP' stereotype on it.

I think the contrast between this:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3155?viewlocale=en_US

...and this:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/hands...lsupp.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/refer...ngeUI.mspx

...is a good illustration of why and how XP earns the "Winblows" epithet, otdl.

[onthedownlow]

Article Accelerator wrote:
...is a good illustration of why and how XP earns the "Winblows" epithet, otdl.

Must not have much language experiences on both platforms I take it?

First, it's much easier than the links...first ones that were queried, and it's virtually the same process - go to Control Panels (Sys Prefs) and select the Date/Time/Regional Options (International Prefs) and then the languages you'd like. Simple as Apple pie. : )

The huge difference actually is that default installation of OS X (speaking of original OS X Mac installs...not customized reinstalls w/o them) already have hundreds MB of language packs installed (...GB+, actually) that the super majority of users do not need to begin with - and to remove them to salvage HD space...the person first needs to even realize that they have already 'lost' GB of space as soon as they unbox their shiny Mac and then to somehow find out that they need to download a 3rd party program for the uninstallation which can take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes (usually on the longer end). Unnecessary and much easier issue on the Windows-side.

It takes a whole minute, if that, to add a language pack within Windows. Wow...isn't that something?

[Speedy]

Thanks!

The XP install will be new so I will see that Spanish is installed.

[onthedownlow]

You're welcome.

You don't have to worry about installing the pack during the install...just after you get Windows installed/setup...then just go into the Control Panels and change the setting to Spanish.