Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. 218
New submitter bmurray7 writes "You might think that the country that has the fastest average home internet speeds would be a first adapter of modern browsers. Instead, as the Washington Post reports, a payment processing security standard forces most South Koreans to rely upon Internet Explorer for online shopping. Since the standard uses a unique encryption algorithm, an ActiveX control is required to complete online purchases. As a result, many internet users are in the habit of approving all AtivceX control prompts, potentially exposing them to malware."
Macs? Linux? (Score:5, Interesting)
From TFA:
Holy crap!
SEED in Flash, Java, JS, NPAPI, or PPAPI (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Bad summary (Score:2, Interesting)
"Modern browsers" have real developer tools. IE 10 does not. Therefore, only IE 11 could possibly be considered modern. Since it represents less than 1% of all IE web traffic, it's probably fair to just lump them all together for the purpose of their argument.
"Super Size Me" says innocent Koreans to M$ (Score:5, Interesting)
You're wrong about Korean culture...
Well, partially wrong. They built their IT infrastructure based on the *best* available at the time: Microsoft
Blame Microsoft for making shitty products that lock-in users (and whole countries) to an inefficient half-assed software system.
caveat emptor? sure...but at some point you have to acknowledge that they culpability can't rest only on the consumer....M$ parasitic system design was/is truly evil
If you want to fault Korean culture, fault them for being too trusting of the USA in general....poor people actually take what we say at face value.
I lived there for 1 year...I know the ass-backwards way they sometimes adapt new technology...but this isn't that...the aren't inherently inefficient as a culture...they showed us what happens when a country actually does what M$ suggests...
Sort of like a 'Super Size Me' kind of project only with IT infrastructure for a whole country not fast food