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Hi
I'm in Japan, and want an English Vista download to figure out which way to focus effort. But instead am presented with a Japanese only environment.... I'm unable to obtain anything in English ! And when reattempting from my my home country I'm informed that I've exhausted my allowed licences - why ??? Globalisation... bah humbug, only when convenient. Hey, as a US citizen how can I get a US copy other than through Armed forces or paying ehauberant Japan fees (ie in Japan you pay x2 for a product in the US simply because you get ... "service" .. which aint here for English speakers!

How did you get your beta version?? This seems odd because I was given a choice of several languages to download. I'm in the US btw.
"Steve" wrote:

Hi
I'm in Japan, and want an English Vista download to figure out which way to focus effort. But instead am presented with a Japanese only environment.... I'm unable to obtain anything in English ! And when reattempting from my my home country I'm informed that I've exhausted my allowed licences - why ??? Globalisation... bah humbug, only when convenient. Hey, as a US citizen how can I get a US copy other than through Armed forces or paying ehauberant Japan fees (ie in Japan you pay x2 for a product in the US simply because you get ... "service" .. which aint here for English speakers!

That's the point I can't get one :-|
"vampyre~" wrote in message

How did you get your beta version?? This seems odd because I was given a choice of several languages to download. I'm in the US btw.
"Steve" wrote:
Hi
I'm in Japan, and want an English Vista download to figure out which way to focus effort. But instead am presented with a Japanese only environment.... I'm unable to obtain anything in English ! And when reattempting from my my home country I'm informed that I've exhausted my allowed licences - why ??? Globalisation... bah humbug, only when convenient. Hey, as a US citizen how can I get a US copy other than through Armed forces or paying ehauberant Japan fees (ie in Japan you pay x2 for a product in the US simply because you get ... "service" .. which aint here for English speakers!

"Steve" <svaardt_$B_U(B_h$B…U(Bm$B`o(Bl.c$B…N(B> wrote in message

I'm in Japan, and want an English Vista download to figure out which way to focus effort. But instead am presented with a Japanese only environment....

Which site are you trying to download from? From MSDN I got both Japanese and English-language versions, and have a vague recollection of two other languages being available. Some of Microsoft's sites provide options to change the language you wish to see and some don't provide such options. Among Microsoft pages that provide such options, some obey, some don't obey, some do a mix, some produce mojibake (shoving Kanji through an 8-bit processor which then displays gibberish in either a Latin-based or Japanese font), etc. So anyway, which site is giving you this particular trouble?

And when reattempting from my my home country I'm informed that I've exhausted my allowed licences - why ???

Because they're Microsoft?

Globalisation... bah humbug, only when convenient. Hey, as a US citizen

You spelt "Internationalisation", "licences", and "Globalisation" in English, and you want readers to believe you're a US citizen ?-)