Two months after Apple Computer Inc released a Catalan version of its System 7, Microsoft Corp has jumped on the bandwaggon and announced Catalan editions of MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1, and a spell-checker and dictionary for Word for Windows 2.0. Madrid-based Microsoft Iberica SRL generates 28% of its turnover in Catalonia, and managing director Joao Teixeira believes the move will increase this figure still more. As a result, he has taken on more staff in the region. The translation project was supported by the University of Barcelona, the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, and Microsoft’s European translation centre in Ireland. Staff at the development centres of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA, Fujitsu Ltd and Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA also contributed to the work.
