On the occasion
of International Mother Language Day, Microsoft has announced support for email
addresses in 15 Indian languages across its email apps and services, including
Office 365, Outlook 2016, Outlook.com, Exchange Online and Exchange Online Protection (EOP). For the first
time, users will be able to use local language email
addresses for Outlook accounts on PCs, e.g., व्यक्ति@संगठन.भारत. It will also allow users to
now seamlessly send/receive mails to/from local language email addresses via Outlook client on PCs, outlook.com in addition to Outlook apps
for Android and IOS. This initiative is part of
the company’s ongoing efforts to support Email Address
Internationalization (EAI) across its
products and services eco-system and make technology accessible in local languages.
The languages being introduced are those that support Unicode, an international encoding
standard for use with different languages and scripts. Local language email addresses are
inseparably linked with Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) and can
currently be registered in these 15 languages according to .IN Registry, which is responsible for registering IDNs in India.Microsoft’s
products will also support additional Indian languages as and when their IDNs
and email addresses become available in the future, making this feature forward
compatible.
Speaking of the announcement Meetul Patel, COO - Microsoft
India said, "Ensuring that language is not a barrier to
the adoption of technology is key for digital inclusion and growth. Making
email addresses available in 15 languages is an exciting step to making modern
communications and collaboration tools more accessible and easier to use for
all – something we have been relentlessly working towards. We’re making
technology use the language of people, and not requiring people to first learn
the traditional language of technology.”
Users can register local language email addresses in India from
third party EAI address providers such as XgenPlus through a simple online process. Microsoft, a member of Universal Acceptance Steering
Group (USAG) along with
international partners including XgenPlus, Coremail, CNNIC and SaudiNIC, is
working to support email addresses in any Unicode script through its apps and
services, including RTL (right to left) languages
such as Urdu and Arabic.
Microsoft and Local Language computing: Starting with Project Basha in 1998, Microsoft has been
consistently working to provide local language computing in Indian languages. Microsoft supports 22 constitutionally
recognized Indian languagesoverall, including 11 Indian language scripts for Office and
Windows. Moreover, Bing allows users to browse in nine Indian languages. With the help of its AI technologies and
Deep Neural Networks, Microsoft is now making translation and speech
recognition across several Indian languages, in addition to making Indic
computing on the local cloud a reality by launching local cloud services from
India data centers.
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