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How to change the display language and speech recognition language on Windows 8 computers
2014/09/07
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- I seem to be getting a lot of hits on this post for Windows 7 where the globalized language features are still limited to Enterprise and Ultimate SKU (and especially not available in Home and Home basic which most language learning users will work with).
- Windows 8 to the rescue, as per Steven Sinofsky’s blog post:
- Or if you need a visual step-by-step, here is me adding German to English on Windows 8.1 Professional:
Just 1 easy option now is they input language: 
Categories: e-languages, os
8.1, display-language, foreign-language-character-input, ms-windows, speech-recognition
MS-Surface RT unboxing
2014/01/29
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Categories: e-infrastructure, hardware, os, tablets
8.1, ms-surface, ms-windows, rt
How to connect an MS-Surface RT to the secure campus wireless
2014/01/29
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- This worked on a 1st generation Surface, but with Windows 8.1.
- No problem getting onto the UNCC49er network, but the Surface/Windows 8 is not supported on the NINERWifi-secure yet. Specifically, loading the automated configuration tools provided when first trying to access the NINERWifi-secure, fails on the RT platform.
- I received seemingly conflicting instructions:
- The campus website
- has for devices that are not supported manual configuration settings.
- Another campus that uses the same secure wireless provider has these instructions for Windows 8.
- I could piece it together from there,
- including any translation to (there is none needed that I could see which BTW actually amazes me) Windows 8 RT.
- Maybe the following would have worked also, but I did not try it since I was already in the middle of the above steps:
- Swipe in from the right-edge of the screen, and tap Settings. (If you’re using a mouse, point to upper-right corner of screen, move the mouse pointer down, and then click Settings.)
- Tap or click the wireless network icon Wireless network icon. A list of available wireless networks should appear.
- Look for the “Hidden Network” option and then choose it.
- When it prompts for a SSID, type in exactly: NinerWiFi-Secure
- It should then prompt for username/password (NinerNET credentials).
- Say yes to any certificates warnings that pop up.
- The campus website
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