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."

Oh noes!

[dancingmad]

The Chinese Purification [slashdot.org] has alrady begun in Asia!!!

That's the problem with Vista's

[Shadow Wrought]

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

Firmware...

[Foryst]

Did someone forget to install the memory and update Korea's firmware again?

Uh oh

[Annymouse Cowherd]

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

Re:isn't everyone?

[purpledinoz]

I've been telling all my friends buying new PCs to avoid Vista as well, until at least the first service pack is released.

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.

In Korea...

[spaceyhackerlady]

In Korea only old people use ActiveX.

Ministry of Information?

[marshmallow soup]

So says the Ministry of Information? Like, the Ministry of Truth? "Don't install Vista. Drink Victory coffee."

Re:isn't everyone?

[marshmallow soup]

Maybe you shouldn't use Slashdot as your source of news? Just a thought.

You mean... Slashdot doesn't always tell the truth?

Re:isn't everyone?

[Ucklak]

Vista will be Microsoft's best seller ever. You wait and see.

In fact, I will bookmark this comment and see when that statment will come true.

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!

Vista isn't done.....

[whoever57]

... until Hangul don't run! (there goes my karma!)

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!

Re:Only prudent.

[KurdtX]

I'm actually a MS user and I don't have a rabid irrational hatred of them like many around here.

Congratulations on the purchase of your first computer!

No, I'm New Here

[New Here]

No, I'm New Here

Re:isn't everyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

"If Vista is proven to cause spontaneous human combustion..."

You mean it doesn't?

Re:Best Windoze Evar!

[twitter]

how do you pronounce "M$", anyway?

Shit.

Re:why even use ActiveX?

[h2g2bob]

World's biggest Microsoft fans/world's worst birth rate? I'm just sayin ...

That'll be the copy protection