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Why South Korea Is Shackled To Windows
baron writes with a blog post explaining in detail why 99.9% of S. Korea uses Windows. This amazing tale began in 1998 when Korea decided it couldn't wait for SSL to be standardized (which it was in 1999) and commissioned an ActiveX control for secure Web transactions. At first there was a secure Netscape plugin too, but we know how that story ended. Quoting: "This nation is a place where Apple Macintosh users cannot bank online, make any purchases online, or interact with any of the nation's e-government sites online. In fact, Linux users, Mozilla Firefox users, and Opera users are also banned from any of these types of transactions..." Now that Microsoft has made ActiveX more secure in Vista, every Web site in S. Korea is scrambling to get things working again and the government is advising citizens not to install Vista. At the end of all this work, they will still be a monoculture in thrall to Microsoft, with millions of users sitting behind some of the fattest pipes in the world.
Have fun getting all your money stolen in 10 years when Microsoft finally realizes ActiveX sucks!
Dup du-wop dupe dee duup duuop
Isnt this the same reason they CANT go to Vista, that and MS finally got rid of ActiveX? Oh well, guess their banking apps should NOT have been tied to a OS they have no control over.
...that the grass is not always greener. Maybe now we can drop all the posts and stories about how the Koreans have it so much better with their massively fast pipes, and how the US is sooo far behind.
Microsoft isn't that bad. The only reason people keep bashing them is
because they are the market leader. Do you think things got this way
because their software sucks? Of course not. The free market decided
to make them king. It's that simple.
Pragmatists need to step up to the plate and start throwing around a little
street logic because the idealists (which seems to be a lot of people
at Slashdot) don't have much to stand on here.
I've used just about every major operating system from the last 25 or 30
years. And I can attest that computers have never been more capable,
accessible, and easy to use as they are now. Microsoft is the Model-T of
operating systems. They have brought computing to the masses.
And yes I've used Linux a lot. Face it, you walk into any computer store
and what do you find? Hardware where only Microsoft *whatever version*
is supported. It doesn't make sense to put resources into other systems
with so little market share. A lot of hardware is working in Linux now.
But try buying a printer, scanner, or some other specialty hardware. Forget
it. You're going to have endless trouble unless you're using Windows. Period.
The pragmatist is going to want to just plug it in and move on. The idealist
is going to waste his life away trying to get something to work, sometimes only
partially. Be my guest. I have better things to do with my time;-)
the posts a dupe too dude.
If editors can dupe stories without checking back a week, why should I care if I go post +5's?
Just post a canned response from the post I took.
Consider it a compliment ;-D
Slashdot moderators and I found that QUITE INSIGHTFUL. Thank you for boosting the S/N ratio that I lower everyday.
You should have posted in my journal. I'd engage you fairly there. My journal isnt a battle ground.
Fair enough. I'd not associate around myself either online.
Too true..
;-D
I should have, but it was soo worth it to see Sloppy(14984) come and "congratulate" me
Sometimes you also have to call a queen a queen.
You are a queen.
You're nothing; like me.
I was trolling but these are excellent articles. I read them both. I will point others to these when the opportunity arises.
Truth be told. I was marked as a "troll" an another post, when I wasn't actually trolling. I
was angry because of it. So I thought, well, let's just be a troll since they think I'm one anyway.
I'm over it more now. But people should be careful when they mark someone as a troll. I think in
general, people at Slashdot are *too* sensitive to this sort of thing. Also, there is nothing wrong
with rebuking a troll if it provides others good information.