international business machines

Different parts of the globe have different versions of computers. Japanese boards have Japanese characters on buttons. The displays and the interfaces are also in Japanese. I asked a computer company helpdesk if it was possible to switch the display language to English. We can't change it as long as we use Japanese versions of operating system (e.g., Japanese Windows XP), they told me. That is, Japanese computers are very Japanese. So many avid computer geeks visit Japan to buy the version for their computer collections.