Google Apps goes global

Filed under: Official Google Blog — Wrote by Lees on Saturday, December 8th, 2007 @ 8:49 pm

Posted by Sanjay Raman, Google Apps
Product Manager

Our mission is to "organize the world's information and make
it universally accessible
and useful." Note that twice in this eleven-word mission
statement, we mention that this is a global effort, not just a
problem we're solving only for English-speaking users in the
U.S. That global focus is critical, because fully 65% of Internet
users around the world speak a language other than English. In
fact, the Internet's top 10 languages still only account for
around 85% of users — and the remaining 15% represents almost 200
million people.

As part of our broader effort to make Google accessible to more
people in their native languages, we're announcing a number of
updates for >Google Apps, our customizable package of
hosted communication and collaboration href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/user_features.html"
>applications for businesses, schools, and
other organizations. Several features and components previously
available only to English users and administrators of Google Apps
are now available in other languages, too. Here's a quick
rundown of what's new for non-English speakers:

Google Apps href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/editions_spe.html"
>Premier Edition for companies and
organizations needing an uptime guarantee for email service, 10
gigabytes of email storage per user, href="http://code.google.com/apis/apps/"
>integration APIs and multi-lingual
telephone support for critical issues (support experts are
available in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Dutch).
Also, for a limited time, you can try Premier Edition for free for
30 days.

Google Apps >Partner Edition for ISPs and portals
that want to offer Gmail and other applications to their
subscribers.

Google href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/dands.html"
>Docs & Spreadsheets, which
lets Google Apps users create and collaborate in real time, right
from their browsers.

The href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/start_page.html"
>Start Page, a central place for Google Apps
users to preview their inboxes, calendars and documents, access
their organizations' essential content, and search the
web.

A more user-friendly href="http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/admins/control_panel.html"
>control panel interface for Google Apps
administrators.

href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=61369"
>Mail migration tools for
administrators who want to switch from a different email system
(available with Premier and Education Editions only).

Not only are we adding these features to the languages Google Apps
already supports; we're also rolling Google Apps out in six
more languages. Here's the full list: href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=fr" >French, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=it" >Italian,
German,
>Spanish, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=nl" >Dutch, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=sv" >Swedish,
>Norwegian, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=da" >Danish, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=fi" >Finnish,
>Turkish, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=pl" >Polish, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=uk"
>Ukrainian, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=cs" >Czech, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=ru" >Russian,
>Chinese (Simplified), href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=zh_TW"
>Chinese (Traditional), href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=ja"
>Japanese, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=ko" >Korean, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=pt_BR"
>Brazilian Portuguese, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=th" >Thai, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=vi"
>Vietnamese, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=ar" >Arabic, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=iw" >Hebrew, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=id"
>Indonesian, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=hu"
>Hungarian, href="http://www.google.com/a/?hl=en_GB" >UK
English and >US English. height="1" width="1" />

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