tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post963566734104675332..comments2024-02-12T17:31:58.684+01:00Comments on Jonstraveladventures: Hasta la vistaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-35923171824943917042008-04-18T09:30:00.000+02:002008-04-18T09:30:00.000+02:00Hi Kevin,I found this very quickly yesterday and t...Hi Kevin,<BR/><BR/>I found this very quickly yesterday and then spent an hour trying to actually find where you could download them.<BR/><BR/>A while later I discovered a tech site which noted that although they are advertised on the microsoft site, they are not actually available yet and nobody knows when they will be.<BR/><BR/>If you know otherwise and can show me a page which actually has a 'download LIP Spanish to English pack' button, then I'll be a very happy man - until then, Windows sucks big time!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11667852535983804885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16693931.post-8000062210656815672008-04-18T04:45:00.000+02:002008-04-18T04:45:00.000+02:00Hey JonYou can get English on your non-English-bas...Hey Jon<BR/><BR/>You can get English on your non-English-based Vista system regardless of which version of Vista you are running. The difference is that with Ultimate the English menus penetrate deeper into the system, whereas with the other versions you only get the most commonly accessed menus in English.<BR/><BR/>Microsoft's documentation is worded to make it seem that if you want other languages you need Ultimate, eg. KB925471, "Windows Vista language packs are available for computers that are running Windows Vista Ultimate. The Windows Vista language packs can be installed only from the Windows Ultimate Extras section on the Windows Update Web site." However, if you dig further through Microsoft's website you will find that "<A HREF="http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/help/35a1b021-d96c-49a5-8d8f-5e9d64ab5ecc1033.mspx" REL="nofollow">Windows Vista LIPs provide a translated version of the most widely used areas of the user interface. LIPs are freely available to download, and most LIPs can be installed and used on any edition of Windows Vista.</A>"<BR/><BR/>Anyway, if I were you, I'd just get a Macbook and be done with it. You can run it in almost any language you'd ever want to out of the box, you don't need a language pack or Steve Balmer's lips, you'll already have got the "Ultimate" version, you won't need to spend twenty minutes ripping your hair out (as long as you don't get the occasional lemon) and, perhaps most importantly, if you ever have a need to run Windows you can do it on a Mac natively or virtually anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com