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Koreans Advised to "Avoid Vista" for Now

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the as-long-as-warcrack-still-works dept.

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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  1. Clearly this has less to do with activex... by Jon+Howard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...and more to do with Ragnarok and Lineage. :D

  2. Re:Only prudent. by Pieroxy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm not that much of a MS hater myself, and yet I moved to Linux a few month ago (both at work and home). The reason is that there were things that really pissed me off in MS's offering.

    I have a legit XP copy at home and am a bit of a tweaker. Lately I bought a faulty Mobo that gave me quite a bit of trouble to diagnos. Windows would break when I installed SP2, not before on that one. I reinstalled windows dozens of times in that occasion, and every single one of these times I had to call MS to activate my fucking copy. And if you're out of the support hours, no luck. You can't do it.

    This, along with other things made me real mad. Plus a couple of viruses.

    Oh well, vista won't even recognize any of my DVD players (They're RPC-1). What should I buy it for ?

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