Over at Revelations From An Unwashed Brain, The Oracle issues this challenge:
By the end of 2010, Microsoft hopes to have Security Essentials in 87 countries and 33 languages. (Could you even name 33 distinct languages? I don’t think I could.)
Well, since you asked, here’s an off-the-top-o-my-head list:
English (duh), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian, Russian, Georgian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Welsh, Irish, Scots, Serbian, Albanian, Sardinian, Sicilian, Norman, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Papuan, Maylay, Khmer, Hmong (well, the various Hmong dialects as a language group–some few Hmong live in a portion of America’s Third World County), Olelo Hawaii, Burmese, Arabic, Farsi… I think that should be well over the challenged 33 number, and if put to the test, I could (very) likely name a few more. These are just what few spring to mind.
Now, understand me well, I do not have facility in any but a very, very few of the number named, and what facility I have had in the past has waned with years’ disuse, but surely anyone who’s at all even moderately literate can come up with a similar list off the top of their heads. Surely.
Oh, the subject of the article I pulled the quote from? Microsoft Security Essentials, of course. MSSE is really pretty good, though the instance I run on this machine is backed up by two free anti-malware products I run manual scans with from time to time and by running either Trendmicro’s online “Housecall” scanner or Eset’s online scanner.