FYA Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:35:00 -0400 From: Rod.Holland@East.Sun.COM (Rod Holland - Sun BOS Software) Subject: fenestration X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
Subject: Really interesting Win 95 banned in India Content-Length: 1246 X-Lines: 30
Wanted to update you guys on this. Kind of hard to believe, but this is a real issue.
The timezone map doesn't display the correct borders for north region of Kashmir according to the Indian government.
This is an area they are at war with Pakistan over. The map in Win95 is the map used by the UN, so we thought it correct. The Indian Goverment has banned all sales of Windows 95 in India and have also threatened to ban all sales of all MS products in India. (Note that the difference were talking about is a dozen pixels on the map.) I've heard this is front page news there too.
Looks like the solution of disabling the map is ok for them, so that's what we'll do and re-release a special English version for India. We'd change the bitmap to
please India, but who knows how long it'd stay correct. In the future, we'll have a more politically correct timezone picker that avoids this sort of thing so we don't have to ship a special Indian version.
If you have any special advise on how else we might deal with this, please let me know.I don't have a schedule yet on when we'll be able to re-release disks and CDs for India.
---End of forwarded mail from Eric Johnson DAD ProjDev, Microsoft.
Hi Stan,
Apparently the Microsoft story is true ...
Tom
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Subject: Re: Windows 95 Content-Length: 570 X-Lines: 18
Unbelievable, but true. Looks like the rectification is in the works already(according to the Economic Times of India)
Microsoft removes software feature with wrong Indian map (Eco. Times)
Microsoft will omit the time zone feature in its Windows 95 software package for the Indian market. This follows the Indian Customs department's decision not to allow the import of software that has maps showing Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan and China. Microsoft has also decided to rectify erroneous maps of India in several of its other products.