Chinese features are also available in Enterprise, if your license includes these features and if your IT department decides to install them. I think there was also a version of Vista called Home Basic, but I've never seen it so I can't comment on that one. Windows Ultimate, and most installations of Windows Enterprise, also include "Language Packs" that will change the Windows and Internet Explorer UI the user interface: menus, dialogs, etc.
Following is a summary of the most important Chinese features, with links to additional pages with more details. Unlike Windows XP, in Windows Vista and Windows 7 you do not need to " enable East Asian languages " as a separate step after installation of the system.
The new Windows can display Chinese characters as soon as you start up the first time. Chinese should automatically display in Internet Explorer and most other browsers without any special setup.
In the rare event that Chinese shows up as "garbage" or empty boxes, try manually adjusting the Encoding in Internet Explorer's "Page" menu. Microsoft Word and most other applications should also display Chinese by default. Problems may occur due to missing fonts.
Try selecting the text and choosing a Simplified or Traditional Chinese font from the font menu to fix this.
Free updates were released in to update XP, Vista and Windows 7 with even more. The mainland MSPY update includes the new Sogou-like Microsoft Pinyin "SimpleFast", while the Taiwan Office update for which you do not need Office includes updates to existing input methods plus new or returning options for Cantonese Jyutping, Unicode encoding, and Simplified character support.
Adding Simplified Chinese Pinyin input 2. Adding Traditional Chinese Pinyin input 3. Note: Internet Explorer Language Packs began showing up as separate downloads a year or two after Windows Vista was released.
I suspect this was due to a European Commission ruling requiring more separation between the system and IE, but by the time you read this Microsoft may have negotiated a way to combine the downloads again. To hide the rest of the Language Packs so that these downloads do not appear every time Windows Update is run, right-click on each pack and select "Hide update" one at a time.
You can bring these back by clicking "Restore hidden updates" in the left column of the previous screen in Windows Update anytime:. Switching between languages is simple process. Open the Region and Language control panel, where you will now find this drop-down menu:. Select a display language, click "OK", and then log out and log back in to complete the change.
You do not need to restart. Simple, yes? Feel free to write me via the "Contact" link below if you have any questions or suggestions.
Being " Pinyin Joe", I never wrote much about Chinese handwriting input except to agree with you that this feature should not require an upgrade to Windows Ultimate or Enterprise!!!
I also haven't written much about Chinese text-to-speech or speech recognition , but feel free to write if you're having problems with any of those and I'll do my best to help. Chinese Computing Help Desk. Custom Search. They only change the interface and add an additional handwriting feature. You should already be able to read and type Chinese in any version of Windows 7 or Vista. You usually don't even need a Language Pack to display Chinese filenames, unless the files were created by someone using an older language pack or localized system.
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