Christopher,
I use an English OS on my machines (Win95 SR2 if it matters) despite its
identical Spanish version being available to me. Why? My customers
(both Spanish speaking locals and English speaking travelers) use the
browsers. Almost never does anyone use much of the OS, and for security
reasons I have a lot of the OS unavailable to customers in any case. So
I selected the OS's language on what would be easier for me to
administer.
As to browsers, both MSIE and Netscape have identical versions in
English and Spanish. I have been unable to have two language versions
on a single machine, so on each machine I have Netscape in Spanish and
MSIE in English or vice versa.
The same is true of MS Office applications. They're available in
Spanish and many more languages. Installing different language versions
on the same machine causes problems, however, so -- again -- I have
different languages on different machines.
By the way, just because your customers are native Spanish speakers
doesn't mean that they will prefer Spanish language applications. Many
Honduran computer users work in workplaces with English language
applications and are confused by Spanish language applications. Ditto
the Spanish keyboard, which not only adds a few extra characters (� and
such) but juggles a lot of keys around, annoying touch typists used to
an English keyboard. Poll your potential customers and see what they
would prefer, or have different setups on different machines and see
what works.
I obtain all my hardware and much of my software locally, which insures
that what I have is probably going to be pretty much what local users
are used to seeing. I could, say, download Star Office for free, but my
customers know and expect MS Office.
Hope this helps. Good luck.
Warren Post
The Cybercaf� at Pizza Pizza
http://sites.netscape.net/srcopan/cybercafe.htm
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