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Remember Microsoft Windows, which considered changing OS display language a enterprise/pro/ultimate feature, which was NOT included in home edition? Ridiculous.
by jve 5y ago
Remember Microsoft Windows, which considered changing OS display language a enterprise/pro/ultimate feature, which was NOT included in home edition? Ridiculous. Luckily there was "Vistalizator" where you could install language pack of choice.
Anyway, after multiple OS releases like that, they finally dropped that nonsense starting with Windows 8.
- johnwalkr 5y agoI have one windows PC that has heritage back to 2016, was originally installed in Japanese, then switched to English. It always had a Windows 10 pro license, and there is still in 2022 many places in the OS that only show up in Japanese. And many smaller and enterprise apps use region instead of language to set the language.
- cesarb 5y ago> Remember Microsoft Windows, which considered changing OS display language a enterprise/pro/ultimate feature, which was NOT included in home edition? I remember Microsoft Windows (and MS-DOS) having a hardcoded OS display language; if you installed a Brazilian edition of Microsoft Windows, all you got is Brazilian Portuguese, since the translations are hardcoded within each binary (but you could still change things like date format and keyboard layout), and if you wanted a different OS display language, you had to wipe and reinstall. I vaguely recall reading that this had changed starting with IIRC Windows Vista, which put the translations in separate files (instead of hardcoding them in the executables and DLLs).