Where can I download MUIs and LIPs?

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I'm looking to test Vista in multiple languages. Where can I download MUIs
and/or LIPs for Vista? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

Thanks,
ravisurdhar
 
Can you provide some links to back that up Andre - I'd like to read about
that :o)

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I have done my research.
If your Company spans the Globe and has multi-lingual employee's then, they
would have the resources to invest in the Windows Multilingual User
Interface. MUI is not something for the home users, although you have home
use rights for XP Pro under VLK.

This allows large corporations to roll out the same worldwide image with a
single install job. Local users can then select the user interface language
or it can be set by Group Policy for Organizational Units.
MUI also allows different language users to share the same workstation or
roaming users to take their localized user interface from one workstation to
another. For instance, one user might choose to see system menus, dialogs
and other text in Japanese, while another user logging onto the same system
might prefer to see the corresponding text in French.

So, you have the option of changing the language to English at anytime you
want, also I believe it has translation tools, so if you send a spanish
document to the US partners, they will recieve it in English.

You can learn more:

http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/DrIntl/faqs/muifaq.mspx#MUIques1
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Andre said:
I have done my research.
If your Company spans the Globe and has multi-lingual employee's then, they
would have the resources to invest in the Windows Multilingual User
Interface. MUI is not something for the home users, although you have home
use rights for XP Pro under VLK.

This allows large corporations to roll out the same worldwide image with a
single install job. Local users can then select the user interface language
or it can be set by Group Policy for Organizational Units.
MUI also allows different language users to share the same workstation or
roaming users to take their localized user interface from one workstation to
another. For instance, one user might choose to see system menus, dialogs
and other text in Japanese, while another user logging onto the same system
might prefer to see the corresponding text in French.

So, you have the option of changing the language to English at anytime you
want, also I believe it has translation tools, so if you send a spanish
document to the US partners, they will recieve it in English.
Click to expand...

Corrections to this last paragraph:
* for Windows 2000/XP (and also for Office 2000/XP), the base install
must be English. In Vista, the base language is neutral (ie no language)
so in theory any Vista user should be able to use a MUI to change to any
other language. There hasn't been an announcement made as to more
wide-spread availability of MUI packs for Vista though.
* document translation tools ave available with Office (not Windows) and
are far from automatic.
 
Andre - thanks for the link - hope you understand that I'm not questioning
your ability or knowledge, I just like to learn more as well, so links and
articles I always enjoy reading :o)

Mike - thanks for clarifying as well!

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Sorry for the multiple posts, I kept getting error messages.

Andre - What about LIPs? As I understand it, those are aimed more so at the
consumer level than the MUIs. I mean, I've seen screenshots of people running
Vista Beta 2 in german and polish. Is there a way to change the language of
the UI in Vista without downloading a completely different localized copy?
 
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