Focal off, Microsoft tells Gaelgeóirí

MICROSOFT has excluded Irish from its plan to translate the Windows operating system into 40 additional languages.

Focal off, Microsoft tells Gaelgeóirí

The company is preparing translations for speakers of Welsh, of Catalan in Spain and of Gujarati and Tamil in India, after worldwide complaints that young computer users were losing their native tongue.

The “start” menu will be translated along with other computer commands associated with Windows.

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