Microsoft Windows for the Incas’

By admin on August 26th, 2006

Microsoft Windows INCA was launched in Peru last June and now freely available for download online, the software is a simple INCA patch that translates the familiar Microsoft menus and commands. Microsoft teamed up with several universities in Peru’s Quechua-speaking south to create the translation program, joining 47 other versions of Windows in such languages as Kazakh, Maori and Zulu.

And while relatively few of South America’s estimated 10 to 13 million Quechua speakers have regular access to a computer, the project is already paying dividends for Microsoft: The company recently won a contract from the Peruvian government for 5,000 Quechua-equipped computers.