Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now

An anonymous reader writes "The Chosonilbo reports that several government ministries in South Korea are advising users not to install Windows Vista, at least until popular online services can be made compatible. The problem is that ActiveX is pervasive in the Korean webspace, employed by everyone from web games to online banking. Upgrading to Vista is expected to render many of these services unusable. Portions of the popular "Hangul" word processor, a major competitor to Office in that country, are also not functioning under Vista. The Ministry of Information is planning to publish compatibility information for popular websites, and urging users to carefully research the implications of upgrading."

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Re:That's the problem with Vista's

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

It's more like a guy with a gun forcing you off the top of the mountain you're currently sitting on, back down to the valley, and up another mountain where the view is pretty much the same as the one you had from the first mountain.

And why is proprietary MS junk bad again?...

[JimDaGeek]

Hmmm, making web stuff with proprietary MS crap like "ActiveX" is now bad? That is not the story that MS would say. This is exactly what the companies of Korea that used MS-only crap deserve. Using MS-Only crap will only bite you in the end. Using _any_ proprietary MS-crap has always wound up being a bad choice IME. To bad most business shills give in to the MS marketing machine and continue to use MS-only junk.

Using standards is the _only_ way to go. Every time anyone buys into MS-only crap, they _will_ get burned in the end. As a programmer with more than a decade of experience, I never recommend MS-only junk. I always push for standards, regardless of platform. Too bad the programming market is flooded with a bunch of MS-only, VB-only "programmers". In the past decade, the biggest problems I have seen with systems have all come from "programmers" that only know MS stuff.

All of the programmers I have met that know Linux or Solaris or Mac in addition to MS have all been top notch. All the MS-only, VB-only "programmers" I have met have been _rocks_ and do not deserve a job. Sometimes I am ashamed to be a programmer because of how the market is flooded with all these MS-only, VB-only "programmers". I was hoping that Microsoft's move to .Net would have put all the VB-only "programmers" out of a job. However, MS gave in and brought VB to the .Net platform. What a shame.

Please spare me the "VB is a 'real' programming language now" bunk. It is still a _basic_, overly verbose, child-like language for bottom of the barrel, dime-a-dozen, "programmers".

Mark me troll if you want. However, anyone with any real programming abilities out there would agree.