Assuming for a moment that the question posed by TFM is true (and I think it is), then the less than stellar adoption rate of Vista probably signals the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
Previous to Vista, Windows survived because it had no real competition. Vista comes on the scene and has to face nascent (or slightly better) competition in the form of OSX, Linux, and what could be the beginning of an outright OEM revolt (starting with Dell).
Most/.ers know Windows is junk, and as MS products are forced to compete more on merit rather than mindshare, what is the response from Redmond? More process, not more quallity... and don't forget the FUD.
Linux only has a chance in the desktop market if OEM's start shipping systems with it preinstalled, offer some form of support, and contribute back to the FOSS community with drivers, etc.
If (when?) Dell starts shipping Linux desktops, the strongest way they can thumb their nose at MS is to completely ignore any form of SuSE as an option, thereby dismissing the MS/Novell deal. That leaves RedHat as the main contender, but we can hope Michael Dell exerts some executive power and decrees that they use Ubuntu.
Either way, it will take the better part of a decade for MS to collapse. Their future products only have to suck as much as Vista in order to contribute to this process, while everybody else's goods get better.
Is Dell becoming brave in the face of MS? First they seem to get serious about putting Linux on non-server systems, and now they're bending to customer demand, putting XP back on some systems.
The rest of the OEM's surely see what a disappointment Vista is, both technically and in terms of sales. If the rest of them joined Dell in standing up to the Redmond behemoth, the result would probably benefit everyone. Except MS. A lower MS tax, and ways to avoid it altogether.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next time Dell renegotiates their OEM contract, the terms are more balanced.
Wrong. Yahoo! is messed up, and only Firefox exposes that fact.
Too few people don't understand that Standards compliance is a two way street. Browsers have to be compliant, and so do websites. If one or both fail, then eventually someone will have a less than optimal experience on a site.
The Windows logo program worked for XP because MS management seems to have been more competent with XP than they have been with Vista. Is this because of top level personnel changes, MS being spooked by increasingly visible competition (regardless of actual threat level to MS) since 2001, or both?
It was never meant to actually certify anything, only give the appearance of such. The fact that it worked for XP is icing on the cake, but the slapdash hardware situation (insane system requirements, spotty device support) in Vista exposes the program for what it is: a way for hardware OEM's to ride MS's monopoly coattails.
Just as president Bush ignores Congress, so does George Steinbrenner ignore the salary cap rules of Major League Baseball. The yankees literally buy a spot in the playoffs every year.
Is whether or not this thing is the same crap hardware, with the same flaky drivers, as DTV's piece of shit set-top DVR's.
Who else has had a DR-15 slowly nbuild up lag to any input (from the remote or the face buttons) and eventually stop altogether over about 3 months time? How about 4 of them in a year?
48% of respondents don't pay attention to the question
These uneducated dolts don't gbet to pick and choose their science, or the technology based on it. No evolution? Ok, then: no cell phones, no SUV's, no printing press, no metallurgy, no crop rotation, nothing. Don't care about evidence? Fine, you don't get a trial by your peers, we'll try you by Ordeal just like when the Church ruled Europe. Better start praying you weigh more than a duck.
Take your oh-so-precious superstitions and go back to living in caves... us rational, civilized, enlightened people will even put a big fence around where ever you want to sequester yourselves with a big sign that says "Garden of Eden".
When science discovers a maker's mark on the universe that says "God, 6000 BC" (very doubtful), then the situation will be diferent. Until then, someone telling you god is real doesn't make it true. I'm sure you wouldn't believe me if I told you the Flying Spaghetti Monster is upstairs in your house right now, having his noodly way with your wife.
And I bet when you walk in on that live pasta pr0n, you'll still deny it, despite all the evidence.
The record companies are suffering because their business plans and practices are increasingly short sighted. It used to be that artists were treated as long term investments, being signed for multi album deals, whereas now artists get deals for a song or two. It's another turn in the downward spiral of disposable culture that Hollywood has sold us, and the cycles keep getting shorter.
It's horribly inefficient to operate this way. Instead of going to the grocery store once a week to buy everything you need for the coming week, you make a separate trip for every single item you need. To be even more extreme, go from buying a sack of rice every week, to a cup of rice every day, to a grain of rice every minute. Spend all your time buying rice, and you'll have no time to eat it, and starve.
(Never mind that you can starve anyway by eating nothing but rice, but I digress.)
I thought about how cool a Gecko-based desktop environment would be a few years ago, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of it. Literally, replace Qt and/or GTK+ with XUL+XBL. Probably not very feasable now, but since the 1.9 branch is moving to the Cairo graphics library, it would be a lot easier. With embedded Python support coming (and other languages soon after), no one would be limited to writing their app logic in C/C++ or Javascript.
If this can be applied to a section of a video frame, I wonder how long it will be before video munging apps can strip out the network logos (the duck image in the impainting section gave me this idea)?
Except for SpikeTV or FX... this thing doesn't seem like it can extrapolate 50% of a frame.
If Apple really wants to gain marketshare, they need to do two things:
Make iWork a competent and interoperable competitor to MS Office, or throw their weight behind OOo. Either way, ODF needs to be supported on Macs, if only to push MS into a corner.
Cozy up to game developers and make the Mac a viable gaming platform.
Otherwise, Apple will continue to be stuck with their current demographic, which is largely based on creative-type users and a halo effect from them and the iPod. Mac sales will jump again in the next few months all due to Adobe finally releasing CS3.
"Being cool" will only get Apple so far. They have to play the game and get the work done, and allow their users to do the same.
IE7's improved standard support is minimal. See for yourself at webdevout.net. IE7 still sucks golf balls through garden hose compared to all other modern browsers when it comes to standards support. IE5/6/7 now deserve all the ire and hated that developers held for Netscape 4 whe IE4 was new.
If the developer community drops IE6, it should drop it in favor of a browser with more than a 56% aggregated compliance percentage. A 2% improvement is not what I would call massive. Gecko (Firefox, et al), Opera, and KHTML/Webkit all enjoy at least 90% compliance.
IE is today's legacy browser, even version 5.7^H^H^H7.
(I only looked at the home pages, I have no idea what's beyond any of them)
Hillary's site has a few instances of "images as text". One unecessary table used for layout. Uses HTML4/Loose DTD (not even 4.01!) and has 20 validation errors.
Didn't anyone tell John Edwards' web staff that splash pages suck? I didn't bother to check any technicals given this glaring usability mistake.
Barack Obama's site is slightly more technically modern than Hillary's. Much more "images as text" and a few more tables for layout. A big flash thing with no alternate content? At least it declares a XHTML 1.0 Transitional DTD, but has 60 errors.
Guiliani's site has "images as text", uses tables to layout the join form and the news items. Declares HTML 4.01 Transitional DTD (8 errors), but has the nasty hallmarks of being designed by dreamweaver. The big format the top pushes a hard sell, and makes the campaign look desperate, or at least that money is their top priority. the flags are crazy, though.
McCain: Why is this site so monochromatic? The only color is in the four gratuitous flash movies. No "images as text", but it's all laid out with tables. XHTML 1.0 Transitional doctype, but 95 errors, mostly due to the Dreamweaver monkeys.
Mitt Romney's site was a total surprise. No tables to be found, few "images as text", good semantics, real content on the home page, and XHTML 1.0 Strict doctype with only 20 errors (most of which can be attributed to laziness). Some of the fonts could be bigger, though.
Since internet plebians consider it to be a naturally graphical medium (which it is not), there's almost no chance that any of them will look bad overall. Judging from just their home pages, Romney's web staff could run circles around the others, especially McCain's.
I wish the author had continued his story a little further. I bet he would have discovered that the meatloaf wasn't any better than that of his previous wife, just unnervingly different... with the hot sauce.
MS Wife(C)(R)(TM) 6.0 is no better than version 5.1, except for being more attractive, and slightly psychotic about security instead of inherently lazy.
She is probably even more insistent that you use her mailbox (email), her surfboard (browser), her desk (office suite), and lots of other things she provides, and if you try to go back to your own, she'll break them or set them on fire.
I hope he's not too eager to have sex with her. Most penises won't work with Vista.
One thing for anyone to remember is that Web design is about much more than layout, fonts, and purty pictures. The web is interactive, and therefore user interface principles come into play also. Sadly, most "web designers" and many "web developers" have little more than tangential knowledge of this subject.
The web is not inherently a graphical medium. All "web designers" out there should put a post-it note in their workspace reminding them that HTTP and HTML both contain text in their definitions: not images, video, or Flash.
In my experience, the worst web designers can be divided into two groups: non-artistic people (called programmers in TFA) and print designers.
Programmers I can excuse because they normally don't claim to be experts at any type of visual design.
Print people on the other hand, insist that their artistic training translates intact to the web: it doesn't. The web is interactive and involves many more unknowns (operating system, hardware platform, screen resolution, font size preferences, window size, to name a few) than designing for a X by Y piece of paper. Web pages cannot be treated as a canvas to be painted on. HTML has technical rules, best practices, conventions and "gotchas" that go far beyond what print people learned in their traditional design school. Without a doubt, the least feasable (but sometimes most visually appealing) web designs I've had to deal with were all produced by print people masquerading as web designers.
Blender's UI could use some visual feedback in places, and the usability of the widgets could be improved, but the UI isn't exactly GUI oriented, it's keyboard oriented. This makes Blender hard to learn, but once you get used to the interface, Blender is very powerful and efficient.
I believe anything lacking in Blender's UI is just as much (if not more) the fault of OpenGL as it is the Blender developers.
The fact that they don't publish a manual any more (it having been replaced with a Wiki) is another obstacle. I'd very much like to have a downloadable paginated HTML tarball or a PDF than dela with a Wiki... nothing against Wiki's, I'd just rather have my own local copy of the docs to use.
Blender drove me nuts for a couple months too, but I perservered.
Declare software and business methods unpatentable.
Disallow corporations from holding patents.
Reduce patent terms to 5 years.
Patents held by publicly funded institutions immediately go into the public domain.
My first item is simple common sense, at least to anyone on/..
Second item would restore patents to individuals. The concept of patents was not designed or intended to foster large portfolios wielded by legal entities with mountains of cash and armies of lawyers. It was not even designed with Edison in mind. Restore patent holding to the actual living, breathing inventors, and let their employers have first refusal on any patentable item developed with company funds.
Third, business moves a lot faster than it did 50, 100, 200 years ago. Allowing patents to last 20 years is absurd in today's market.
Public Universities should not be allowed to be complicit with large corporations in holding patents hostage, especially in the science and medical fields. Actually, this could be made irrelevant by #2.
In general, reform the entire system to be oriented toward individual inventors, rather than Corporate innovation squatters.
If Congress does anything about this, it won't be caused by any domestic forces. The EU is gaining strength in these areas and pushing lots of reforms through. If the US wants to continue trading with Europe, many of America's draconian laws will have to be updated, including patents.
Having recently become involved again with a floundering project that I helped start (with the intention of saving it from itself), I read this article not only as a "magic 8 ball user manual" for businesses looking for open source solutions, but also as a recipe for success that projects with any aspirations beyond serving their developers' immediate needs should pay attention to.
I just can't bring myself to care. AOL has done nearly everything possible to ruin the name, reputation, and legacy of Netscape. If the next version of the browser doesn't continue this grand tradition, then they must be out of ideas.
I'd say that Bill is a bit scared that Vista will flop, or worse, people will just buy a Mac.
I'd go so far as to say that the only thing keeping Vista from being a flop is MS' strongarm agreements with the OEM's.
If no one at MS can come up with a single compelling reason to get Vista other than irrelevant eye candy, then there must not be one. Nobody wants Vista, because there's no real value in it, and because MS can't tell anyone why they should want Vista.
The next couple of years will be a huge opportunity for Apple and/or Lunix.
Most people agree that AJAX is a silly acronym. (I personally think DHTML is much sillier). Let's examine it.
"Asynchronous": I'll buy that.
"Javascript": won't be alone here for long.
"And": who makes a conjunction significant in an acronym?
"XML": the ideal, but not only, data format.
Javascript can do a lot, but it wasn't originally designed for heavy application logic. Without getting redesigned to allow it to used outside the browser or web server, I believe Javascript will become a limitation for "AJAX" eventually.
Also, the folks at Mozilla have plans to allow application developers using Gecko to completely sidestep javascript with other scripting languages, the first being Python:
<script type="text/python">
When this happens, will we see a new "technology" called APAX? Embedded scripting with Ruby begets ARAX? When does it end? Or does AJAX become an umbrella term like LAMP?
"And" is only there to make the name pronounceable. It also just happens to leave us with a somewhat familiar word.
XML here implies that you can only work with XML formatted data, which is not the case. XMLHTTPRequest also maintains a copy of the response as plain text, so it's just as easy to work with CSV, for example. Except there's no CSV parser built into Javascript.
AJAX is a silly name, but we're probably stuck with it.
This assumes that one of two things will eventually happen:
MS will give ActiveX in Vista the freedom it had in previous versions of Windows
All these sites/applications will move to something less Windows-centric
As for the first, it's possible that MS can decide later that it "degraded the user experience" with Vista with regard to ActiveX and loosen the restrictions on it with SP1 (thus, degrading the user experience when the next generation of ActiveX exploits get into the wild).
For the second, it would take a lot of time for these things to get ported to non-MS (not necessarily Open) solutions such as Flash.
Which will come first?
Seems MS has created quite a dilemma for themselves. No doubt Korea isn't the only country where this will happen.
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Assuming for a moment that the question posed by TFM is true (and I think it is), then the less than stellar adoption rate of Vista probably signals the beginning of the end for Microsoft.
Previous to Vista, Windows survived because it had no real competition. Vista comes on the scene and has to face nascent (or slightly better) competition in the form of OSX, Linux, and what could be the beginning of an outright OEM revolt (starting with Dell).
Most /.ers know Windows is junk, and as MS products are forced to compete more on merit rather than mindshare, what is the response from Redmond? More process, not more quallity... and don't forget the FUD.
Linux only has a chance in the desktop market if OEM's start shipping systems with it preinstalled, offer some form of support, and contribute back to the FOSS community with drivers, etc.
If (when?) Dell starts shipping Linux desktops, the strongest way they can thumb their nose at MS is to completely ignore any form of SuSE as an option, thereby dismissing the MS/Novell deal. That leaves RedHat as the main contender, but we can hope Michael Dell exerts some executive power and decrees that they use Ubuntu.
Either way, it will take the better part of a decade for MS to collapse. Their future products only have to suck as much as Vista in order to contribute to this process, while everybody else's goods get better.
Is Dell becoming brave in the face of MS? First they seem to get serious about putting Linux on non-server systems, and now they're bending to customer demand, putting XP back on some systems.
The rest of the OEM's surely see what a disappointment Vista is, both technically and in terms of sales. If the rest of them joined Dell in standing up to the Redmond behemoth, the result would probably benefit everyone. Except MS. A lower MS tax, and ways to avoid it altogether.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next time Dell renegotiates their OEM contract, the terms are more balanced.
Wrong. Yahoo! is messed up, and only Firefox exposes that fact.
Too few people don't understand that Standards compliance is a two way street. Browsers have to be compliant, and so do websites. If one or both fail, then eventually someone will have a less than optimal experience on a site.
The Windows logo program worked for XP because MS management seems to have been more competent with XP than they have been with Vista. Is this because of top level personnel changes, MS being spooked by increasingly visible competition (regardless of actual threat level to MS) since 2001, or both?
It was never meant to actually certify anything, only give the appearance of such. The fact that it worked for XP is icing on the cake, but the slapdash hardware situation (insane system requirements, spotty device support) in Vista exposes the program for what it is: a way for hardware OEM's to ride MS's monopoly coattails.
Just as president Bush ignores Congress, so does George Steinbrenner ignore the salary cap rules of Major League Baseball. The yankees literally buy a spot in the playoffs every year.
Is whether or not this thing is the same crap hardware, with the same flaky drivers, as DTV's piece of shit set-top DVR's.
Who else has had a DR-15 slowly nbuild up lag to any input (from the remote or the face buttons) and eventually stop altogether over about 3 months time? How about 4 of them in a year?
These uneducated dolts don't gbet to pick and choose their science, or the technology based on it. No evolution? Ok, then: no cell phones, no SUV's, no printing press, no metallurgy, no crop rotation, nothing. Don't care about evidence? Fine, you don't get a trial by your peers, we'll try you by Ordeal just like when the Church ruled Europe. Better start praying you weigh more than a duck.
Take your oh-so-precious superstitions and go back to living in caves... us rational, civilized, enlightened people will even put a big fence around where ever you want to sequester yourselves with a big sign that says "Garden of Eden".
When science discovers a maker's mark on the universe that says "God, 6000 BC" (very doubtful), then the situation will be diferent. Until then, someone telling you god is real doesn't make it true. I'm sure you wouldn't believe me if I told you the Flying Spaghetti Monster is upstairs in your house right now, having his noodly way with your wife.
And I bet when you walk in on that live pasta pr0n, you'll still deny it, despite all the evidence.
/rant
The record companies are suffering because their business plans and practices are increasingly short sighted. It used to be that artists were treated as long term investments, being signed for multi album deals, whereas now artists get deals for a song or two. It's another turn in the downward spiral of disposable culture that Hollywood has sold us, and the cycles keep getting shorter.
It's horribly inefficient to operate this way. Instead of going to the grocery store once a week to buy everything you need for the coming week, you make a separate trip for every single item you need. To be even more extreme, go from buying a sack of rice every week, to a cup of rice every day, to a grain of rice every minute. Spend all your time buying rice, and you'll have no time to eat it, and starve.
(Never mind that you can starve anyway by eating nothing but rice, but I digress.)
I thought about how cool a Gecko-based desktop environment would be a few years ago, and I'm sure I'm not the only one to think of it. Literally, replace Qt and/or GTK+ with XUL+XBL. Probably not very feasable now, but since the 1.9 branch is moving to the Cairo graphics library, it would be a lot easier. With embedded Python support coming (and other languages soon after), no one would be limited to writing their app logic in C/C++ or Javascript.
If this can be applied to a section of a video frame, I wonder how long it will be before video munging apps can strip out the network logos (the duck image in the impainting section gave me this idea)?
Except for SpikeTV or FX... this thing doesn't seem like it can extrapolate 50% of a frame.
If Apple really wants to gain marketshare, they need to do two things:
Otherwise, Apple will continue to be stuck with their current demographic, which is largely based on creative-type users and a halo effect from them and the iPod. Mac sales will jump again in the next few months all due to Adobe finally releasing CS3.
"Being cool" will only get Apple so far. They have to play the game and get the work done, and allow their users to do the same.
Someone drank the IE7 kool-aid.
IE7's improved standard support is minimal. See for yourself at webdevout.net. IE7 still sucks golf balls through garden hose compared to all other modern browsers when it comes to standards support. IE5/6/7 now deserve all the ire and hated that developers held for Netscape 4 whe IE4 was new.
If the developer community drops IE6, it should drop it in favor of a browser with more than a 56% aggregated compliance percentage. A 2% improvement is not what I would call massive. Gecko (Firefox, et al), Opera, and KHTML/Webkit all enjoy at least 90% compliance.
IE is today's legacy browser, even version 5.7^H^H^H7.
That should tell EMI that their extortion price is not "what the market will bear".
(I only looked at the home pages, I have no idea what's beyond any of them)
Since internet plebians consider it to be a naturally graphical medium (which it is not), there's almost no chance that any of them will look bad overall. Judging from just their home pages, Romney's web staff could run circles around the others, especially McCain's.
I wish the author had continued his story a little further. I bet he would have discovered that the meatloaf wasn't any better than that of his previous wife, just unnervingly different... with the hot sauce.
MS Wife(C)(R)(TM) 6.0 is no better than version 5.1, except for being more attractive, and slightly psychotic about security instead of inherently lazy.
She is probably even more insistent that you use her mailbox (email), her surfboard (browser), her desk (office suite), and lots of other things she provides, and if you try to go back to your own, she'll break them or set them on fire.
I hope he's not too eager to have sex with her. Most penises won't work with Vista.
One thing for anyone to remember is that Web design is about much more than layout, fonts, and purty pictures. The web is interactive, and therefore user interface principles come into play also. Sadly, most "web designers" and many "web developers" have little more than tangential knowledge of this subject.
The web is not inherently a graphical medium. All "web designers" out there should put a post-it note in their workspace reminding them that HTTP and HTML both contain text in their definitions: not images, video, or Flash.
In my experience, the worst web designers can be divided into two groups: non-artistic people (called programmers in TFA) and print designers.
Programmers I can excuse because they normally don't claim to be experts at any type of visual design.
Print people on the other hand, insist that their artistic training translates intact to the web: it doesn't. The web is interactive and involves many more unknowns (operating system, hardware platform, screen resolution, font size preferences, window size, to name a few) than designing for a X by Y piece of paper. Web pages cannot be treated as a canvas to be painted on. HTML has technical rules, best practices, conventions and "gotchas" that go far beyond what print people learned in their traditional design school. Without a doubt, the least feasable (but sometimes most visually appealing) web designs I've had to deal with were all produced by print people masquerading as web designers.
Blender's UI could use some visual feedback in places, and the usability of the widgets could be improved, but the UI isn't exactly GUI oriented, it's keyboard oriented. This makes Blender hard to learn, but once you get used to the interface, Blender is very powerful and efficient.
I believe anything lacking in Blender's UI is just as much (if not more) the fault of OpenGL as it is the Blender developers.
The fact that they don't publish a manual any more (it having been replaced with a Wiki) is another obstacle. I'd very much like to have a downloadable paginated HTML tarball or a PDF than dela with a Wiki... nothing against Wiki's, I'd just rather have my own local copy of the docs to use.
Blender drove me nuts for a couple months too, but I perservered.
My first item is simple common sense, at least to anyone on /..
Second item would restore patents to individuals. The concept of patents was not designed or intended to foster large portfolios wielded by legal entities with mountains of cash and armies of lawyers. It was not even designed with Edison in mind. Restore patent holding to the actual living, breathing inventors, and let their employers have first refusal on any patentable item developed with company funds.
Third, business moves a lot faster than it did 50, 100, 200 years ago. Allowing patents to last 20 years is absurd in today's market.
Public Universities should not be allowed to be complicit with large corporations in holding patents hostage, especially in the science and medical fields. Actually, this could be made irrelevant by #2.
In general, reform the entire system to be oriented toward individual inventors, rather than Corporate innovation squatters.
If Congress does anything about this, it won't be caused by any domestic forces. The EU is gaining strength in these areas and pushing lots of reforms through. If the US wants to continue trading with Europe, many of America's draconian laws will have to be updated, including patents.
Starting a rumor that Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols does not exist, and issuing a subpoena for him also.
Having recently become involved again with a floundering project that I helped start (with the intention of saving it from itself), I read this article not only as a "magic 8 ball user manual" for businesses looking for open source solutions, but also as a recipe for success that projects with any aspirations beyond serving their developers' immediate needs should pay attention to.
I just can't bring myself to care. AOL has done nearly everything possible to ruin the name, reputation, and legacy of Netscape. If the next version of the browser doesn't continue this grand tradition, then they must be out of ideas.
I'd go so far as to say that the only thing keeping Vista from being a flop is MS' strongarm agreements with the OEM's.
If no one at MS can come up with a single compelling reason to get Vista other than irrelevant eye candy, then there must not be one. Nobody wants Vista, because there's no real value in it, and because MS can't tell anyone why they should want Vista.
The next couple of years will be a huge opportunity for Apple and/or Lunix.
While I agree that we need a generalized term...
DAMN. That is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time.
Most people agree that AJAX is a silly acronym. (I personally think DHTML is much sillier). Let's examine it.
Javascript can do a lot, but it wasn't originally designed for heavy application logic. Without getting redesigned to allow it to used outside the browser or web server, I believe Javascript will become a limitation for "AJAX" eventually.
Also, the folks at Mozilla have plans to allow application developers using Gecko to completely sidestep javascript with other scripting languages, the first being Python:
<script type="text/python">
When this happens, will we see a new "technology" called APAX? Embedded scripting with Ruby begets ARAX? When does it end? Or does AJAX become an umbrella term like LAMP?
"And" is only there to make the name pronounceable. It also just happens to leave us with a somewhat familiar word.
XML here implies that you can only work with XML formatted data, which is not the case. XMLHTTPRequest also maintains a copy of the response as plain text, so it's just as easy to work with CSV, for example. Except there's no CSV parser built into Javascript.
AJAX is a silly name, but we're probably stuck with it.
This assumes that one of two things will eventually happen:
As for the first, it's possible that MS can decide later that it "degraded the user experience" with Vista with regard to ActiveX and loosen the restrictions on it with SP1 (thus, degrading the user experience when the next generation of ActiveX exploits get into the wild).
For the second, it would take a lot of time for these things to get ported to non-MS (not necessarily Open) solutions such as Flash.
Which will come first?
Seems MS has created quite a dilemma for themselves. No doubt Korea isn't the only country where this will happen.