Cynically speaking, so this means the last windows version will have bangla ? -kg
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > > > Real scary news on how Microsoft is planning to "help" out the state > everywhere. - Sandip > > P.S. My apologies for including the whole article, soemthing I > normally refrain from. But this scared me a LOT. > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?artid=31482910 > > Bengali Windows version by Oct 2003 > > KOLKATA: A Bengali version of Windows and MS Office is likely to be > available by October 2003 enabling connectivity in rural West Bengal > and cross-border e-access with Bangladesh, West Bengal IT Minister > Manab Mukherjee said on Monday. > > "Microsoft CEO Bill Gates has approved a proposal to enable the use of > Bengali in Windows and MS Office and it is likely to be available by > October 2003," Mukherjee told newspersons after revalidating an August > 2001 MoU with Microsoft, represented by its India President Rajiv > Nair. > > Mukherjee said Microsoft had sought the advice of the state government > on issues of accuracy of Bengali language. > > Besides the proposed version, Microsoft has Tamil and Hindi versions. > > The minister said Microsoft was also considering Kolkata as one of the > destinations for setting up IT training academies in the country. > > On collaboration projects, he said Microsoft had completed work on IT > roadmaps for six government departments -- transport, agriculture > marketing, health, panchayat and land reforms -- and also prepared a > blueprint for creation of a citizen database. > > Mukherjee said the citizen database and citizen interface projects, > intended to provide more security, better planning and identification > of Below Poverty Line (BPL) population, was awaiting the nod from the > Centre. > > The TCS/WEBEL G2C portal project was executed on Microsoft technology, > Mukherjee added. > > On e-governance initiatives, Mukherjee said Microsoft had developed > products for land record management, application for registration > offices, a soon to be launched West Bengal government portal, mail > messaging system of the WBSWAN and local area network at the state > secretariat. "Kolkata Police is in the process of using applications > developed by the National Crime Records Bureau in association with NIC > and Microsoft for linking of 45 police stations," he said. > > The minister said under the IT training initiatives, around 150 > personal assistants to secretaries of the government were trained by > Microsoft along with personnel Webel, state government's executing > agency. > > Microsoft had also offered to set up a trainer's training facility at > a leading technical institution, which would be selected soon, > Mukherjee said. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------- > Sandip Bhattacharya > sandipb <@> bigfoot.com > http://www.sandipb.net GPG/PGP: 0x08EB637C > -------------------------------------------------------- > > ____________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' > in the subjectline and body. > Archive of this mailing list is available at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > ____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list [Bangla Penguin] send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe banglapenguin' in the subjectline and body. Archive of this mailing list is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
