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."

Comments

That's the problem with Vista's

[Shadow Wrought]

The more promising the view, the steeper the cliff...

Uh oh

[Annymouse Cowherd]

Wait, Battle.net isn't compatible with Vista?

Re:why even use ActiveX?

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course they should, but reality is not there.

They must be undergoing some sort of existential crisis.

Re:Users != businesses

[coldsleep]

Good point. I got fixated on the ActiveX comments about games, banks and forgot about the users.

Then again, I always forget about the users. If it weren't for the pesky users, the computers would run fine!

Re:isn't everyone?

[Da Fokka]

I've been telling all my friends buying new PCs to avoid Vista as well, until at least the first service pack is released. Microsoft must be devastated. Hold on, I'm selling all my shares!