Under boycott threat, MS adds New Norwegan support to Office
Date: Thursday, January 02 @ 22:31:59 EST
Topic: Consumers


The BBC is running a brief story about a successful attempt by speakers of Nynorsk, Norway's second official language, to force Microsoft to offer Nynorsk support in Office. Their secret weapon: a threatened boycott of Microsoft software by all Norwegan high schools.

In Douglas Coupland's novel Microserfs, "the Norwegian Macintosh version of Word 5.8" was a code phrase for the worst programming job imaginable.







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