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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for sharing Mark.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Dennis<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">UA-discuss <ua-discuss-bounces@icann.org> on behalf of "UA-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Mark Svancarek <marksv@microsoft.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 2:42 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"ua-eai@icann.org" <ua-eai@icann.org>, "UA-discuss@icann.org" <ua-discuss@icann.org>, "Ua-comms-wg@icann.org" <Ua-comms-wg@icann.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [UA-discuss] Microsoft announcement of EAI in India<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><a name="_MailOriginalBody">Today, </a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">International Mother Language Day</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">,
we announced support for EAI in Office 365 and Outlook.com. We are focusing on Outlook and webmail for now, though we will follow up regarding other mail clients soon.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Likewise we are focusing on Indian scripts now, because Microsoft India is taking the lead on this announcement.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">UASG is mentioned and a snippet of content from UASG-007 is used. Also, we make a callout to XGenPlus as a Microsoft partner and source of India script language mailboxes.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">We are expecting this to be well-received in India. I have listed some English-language uptake so far, below.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Thanks to everyone in UASG and in these mailing lists who helped make this happen!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody">Meetul Patel, Microsoft India COO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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