Rwandans to navigate Windows 8 in native language

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Consumers of Microsoft products in Rwanda will now be able to navigate the company’s latest operating system in their native language.
Kinyarwanda is one of 14 new languages that have been incorporated into the latest version of Microsoft’s Operating System (OS), Windows 8.
The announcement made last Friday now brings the total number of languages compatible with Windows 8 to 109.
The move will help Microsoft in achieving deeper market penetration in a country whose economic growth has been significantly driven by information technology.
Rwanda has committed to annually invest at least 5 per cent of its GDP into science and technology while a key part of its development blueprint, dubbed Vision 2020, is to become the African technology hub.
Other languages that Microsoft is debuting on Windows 8 include Ethiopian Tigrinya, Senegalese Wolof and Pakistani Punjabi. In 2011, Microsoft made its software accessible to Kiswahili speakers after launching a downloadable Kiswahili interface pack for Windows 7.
Windows 8 steps away from previous Microsoft products with a touch-screen friendly interface that is a reflection of an increased focus on compatibility with tablets and other mobile devices.
However, thus far Windows 8 has been unable to deliver on its promise. Microsoft is still struggling to compete in the tablet department while data from analyst firm IDC and research group Gartner shows that worldwide shipment of Personal Computers (PCs) fell by 6.4 per cent in 2012.
Even after the launch of Windows 8 in August 2012, sales failed to pick up in the fourth quarter of the year.


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