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[yfb]

I'm genuinely curious about this subject - does anyone know of a PC bang that's actually running Windows 7 on their computers?

[Swampfox10mm]

Nope. That would require actually having to pay for Windows or face the chance that they would find their computers suddenly not working after the crack is discovered. Window 7 can be cracked, but it is a more difficult thing when you have many computers cracked at one location.

And also, I imagine many of the Korean programs for VM or whatever they use aren't written for Win 7.

[akcrono]

Also, Windows 7 does not come with IE 6. Koreans like IE6 because many of their sites don't work in other browsers. All thanks to the government, who only recently repealed the activeX requirement (from what I've read). Web developers have been slow to adopt more modern browsers.

I do see many PC bangs skinning XP to LOOK like Vista or 7. Boot screen or a quick look in system properties confirms that its plain ol' XP.

[myenglishisno]

I think that Koreans don't know that there are new versions of Windows or different browsers aside from IE 6. Windows 7 needs to be advertised more.

Anyway, I went to one PC Bang which I thought had Windows 7 and it turned out that it was Windows XP using a Windows 7 theme. Most new games won't run in Windows XP so it was kind of annoying to download a game onto a PC Bang computer just to discover it was actually Windows XP all along...

[Swampfox10mm]

Microsoft Korea has been going to universities with a semi truck full of Windows 7 computers for students to try, along with offering discounts on Office, etc. No discount on Win7 though. I think they are having a hard time getting Koreans to switch. I know our university STILL buys new computers and wipes Windows 7, only to install XP.

We got some 3 year-old Core 2 Duos in the English lounge after I requested an upgrade from our old Pentium 4's this past year, and I installed Win7 on all of them just to start from a clean slate and get rid of Ahn Labs V3. Towards the last half of the semester, since the students have learned they run so well, they are getting a lot of usage.

[duke of new york]

[pkang0202]

Most Korean sites I use are compatible with the latest version of IE. The ones that don't usually work when I enable "compatibility mode".

The sites that aren't compatible are usually government/services type websites.

Adoption is slow but its going.

[duke of new york]

[pkang0202]

You can blame companies like Xsecure and other security companies for their lobbying efforts. Politician Kim probably a new Mercedes from Security company A for passing a law requiring certain software checks.