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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[Doc Ruby]

Both phenomena demonstrate that products have to be sold - they don't sell themselves. And the better salespeople make all the difference, regardless of the quality of product.

I kindof agree about 2K4, but you underestimate the power of the corporate media that is all most voters know about the candidates, especially until a couple-few weeks before the election.

2K6 was about as good as a party can do. They took the House with an almost 10-point majority. They didn't lose a single Senate race, and took 6 new ones (of only 11 available), the most any forecaster predicted.

Both of those are against the simple stats that 95-98% of incumbents are reelected. Incumbency is much more powerful than party ID, than position on the issues, or anything else.

We'll see how Democrats do in 2008. The House should gain by at least another dozen or so seats, because they now have power to do the most popular things, and are aiming at the trifecta (Senate/House/president). The Senate should gain by at least 2-4 seats, because Republicans face an even worse asymmetry than what protected Republicans in 2006: something like 15 Republicans, including some of the least popular, and only about 9-10 Democrats, including some of their most popular, are defending. And since Democrats have that 10 point House margin, they can focus on the Senate races, where they've got only a 1-vote majority (named "Lieberman", who's really a Republican). While the presidential races each take care of themselves, there are so many Senators running for president that the Senate will be their battleground for the next 2 years, with Democrats in charge. I'd love to be the Democratic fundraiser, or Chuck Schumer.