East asia language

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Would like to know how to get east asia language LIPs for windows vista.
Specifically korean.
 
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Would like to know how to get east asia language LIPs for windows vista.
Specifically korean.
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Korean is released as a Vista MUI ("Multilanguage User Interface"), not as
an LIP ("Language Interface Pack").

MUI and LIP can be easily confused, but they are two different things.

No LIPs have been released for Vista, yet - in any language.

The Korean MUI has been available for a few months. If you own a non-Korean
language version of Vista (eg English, French, Japanese, etc) and you would
like to add a Korean interface to Windows, you can download and install the
Korean MUI via Windows Update. As my colleague Andre Da Costa described, you
can only install MUIs on Vista Enterprise and Ultimate editions; not on Home
or Business edition. Yes, this was a very silly decision by Microsoft.

You do not need the Korean MUI in order to run Korean language programs.
Support for most Korean codepages is already built-in to Windows Vista. So
you could (for example) install the Korean-language version of Microsoft
Office onto an English-language Vista. Windows stuff will be in English, and
Office stuff will be in Korean. This works for all editions of Vista - Home,
Business, Enterprise, Ultimate.

See here for more background information on LIPs and MUIs:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/muizone.mspx

Hope it helps,
 
Feeling quite cheated after buying a laptop that is installed with Vista! Its
such a cosmopolitan world today, yet we are not allowed to read and write
multiple languages on VISTA home premium. For consumers, we would have
expected the softwares to be inclusive of basic needs such as multilanguage
function - only to be told when the bill comes that the OS have to be
upgraded.

Microsoft has not plans to set this right? Or is this an indication that
users should just switch to OpenSource since MSOffice costs and delivers the
same as OpenSource?
 
Set this right? Do you normally purchase things without knowing
anything about them? You could have gone to Microsoft's Windows website and
easily discovered the differences among the various Vista editions.
You cheated yourself. Nobody else is to blame. I know it sounds harsh
but that's the way it is.

C.B.
 
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