Microsoft Windows 8 enhances user experience from language

According to previous news, Microsoft Windows 8's first consumer preview will be released to the public in the next few days, when many new features of Windows 8 will be presented to us. Although Windows 8 has a huge change in the user interface, this is just the appearance that people can see. Microsoft Windows 8 will enhance the user experience in many ways, and the language is also one aspect. Recently, Microsoft introduced the local language function in Windows 8 on the Building Windows 8 blog. Steven Sinofsky, project manager of Microsoft Windows International Team, said, “For Windows 8, we have reshaped the display language experience, focusing on all Windows users can use more display languages, making it easy for them to find and install different languages ​​and switch between them. ” From a simple understanding of the individual, Microsoft hopes that every user can choose the language they are familiar with on their Windows8 computers.

Steven mentioned in his blog post, "On Windows 8, we repositioned the language from a "local market function" to a "feature for global users", and Think of it as your top priority before you can start working in any language on any Windows 8 computer. If you can't read what Windows presents to you, you won't be able to get the most out of Windows. Therefore, we can't wait to promote the easy-to-use powerful language features to more Windows 8 users. In some countries, users can purchase PCs that are pre-installed in multiple languages. In Windows 8, users can install display languages ​​other than these pre-installed languages. This means that when deciding which model to purchase, the language issue in the PC is no longer a major consideration for the user. If the language you want is not pre-installed on your PC, you can start installing the language immediately. ”

How to install various languages? Steven also elaborated on it: “The language preferences section of the Windows 8 system's control panel has been added, where you can find all the Windows display languages ​​in Windows 8 in one place. In the past, some languages ​​were available through Windows Update, while others were distributed through the Microsoft Download Center. & Rdquo; at the same time, he also published a screenshot of some of the language options Windows8 control panel:

It is reported that the main view of the language preferences of the user to display the current language Win8 system which is enabled. As you can see from the screenshot above, the display language that is installed and enabled is English (United States), so the keyboard layout is also US. According to Steven, language preference is a place where you can add or change display languages, input languages, and other features. In the next blog post, he briefly demonstrated how to add a language to Windows 8.
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After selecting a language is added, the user needs to perform operations to download and install, will Windows8 the appropriate language pack is installed in the computer.

Users can then install the new language is set to Windows8 system's primary language.

According to Microsoft, the number of languages ​​supported Windows8 Windows7 will exceed the current and any older versions of Windows, Windows8 will add 14 language display of the total number of supported languages ​​increased to 109 species. In other words, Microsoft will provide its native language version of the Windows 8 operating system to more than 4.5 billion users worldwide. Of course, as Microsoft said, language is just an improvement in the Windows 8 system, and there are more powerful features that we are looking forward to.