IE9 RTW Language Packs for Windows 7 and Vista

Concomitantly with the general availability of Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft also released the language packs for the browser. The Windows Internet Explorer 9 Language Packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Internet Explorer 9 Language Packs for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 went live on the Microsoft Download Center as the IE9 RTW bits rolled out worldwide.

The language resources on the Download Center are freely available to customers worldwide.

“The Internet Explorer 9 Language Packs install language specific resource files, allowing users to view the user interface (UI) of Internet Explorer 9 in a different supported language,” Microsoft revealed.

“To use these language packs, you must install the matching OS language pack on Windows before proceeding,” the company added.

There are no less than 39 localized versions of IE9 RTW, Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President, Internet Explorer, revealed on March 14, when the browser was launched.

And in this regard, there is one exception to the worldwide availability of IE9. Hachamovitch explained that in an effort to reduce the load on network bandwidth, the Japanese version of IE9 would be offered to customers at a later date.

Japan is currently working to recover from a massive natural disaster after a 9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck the country on Friday.

According to the software giant, “individual language packs are available for the following languages: Arabic; Catalan; Chinese (Hong Kong); Chinese (Simplified); Chinese (Traditional); Czech; Danish; Dutch; English (US); Finnish; French; German; Greek; Hebrew; Hindi (India); Hungarian; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese; Korean; Norwegian (Bokmål); Polish; Portuguese (Brazilian); Portuguese (Portugal); Romanian; Russian; Slovenian; Spanish (Spain); Swedish; Thai; Turkish; Ukrainian; Vietnamese; Bulgarian; Croatian; Estonian; Latvian; Lithuanian; Serbian (Latin); Slovak.”

IE9 RTW is supported only on Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7, not on Windows XP.

Download the Windows Internet Explorer 9 Language Packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Internet Explorer 9 Language Packs for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 here.

Windows Internet Explorer 9 RTW for Windows 7 64-bit edition, Windows 7 SP1 64-bit edition, Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit edition and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64-bit edition is available for download here.