Microsoft reveals more information on its upcoming update Mango, which the company states will support additional languages. Previously supporting English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, the upgrade is aimed at expanding its global communication reach by introducing seventeen new languages.
In most countries, users may prefer using their own language, making it easy for them to operate the device also making the device more attractive. The new update will support seventeen new languages including Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmål), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish.
The upgrade will also be accompanied by twenty new keyboards providing character input support for Brazilian Portuguese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Ukrainian languages.
Also Microsoft plans on bringing Zune Marketplace and Xbox LIVE to over thirty countries. The company hasn’t announced a release date for the update but intends on making it available by the end of this year.