> 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.
в краце: 1999 от нетерпения (и в следствие видимо развитости интернет услуг) внедрить екомерцию по SSL корейцы суют везде ActiveX компонент обеспечивающий SSL. Теперь пользователи маков, линуксов и прочих немсовских ОС не могут пользоваться развитой интернет инфраструктурой в Корее.
http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003095
вообще очень часто, то, что сначало является катализатором какого-то явления становится потом главным тормозом.
