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S.Korea ends Microsoft's online shopping monopoly. The crazy rules mandating Active X based encryption for government and e-commerce sites have finally been dropped, after the Korea Communications Commission found them “unfit for a new Internet environment involving smartphones”.

Posted 5th July 2010 at 8:21 am

Tagged activex, korea, microsoft

2 comments

Frankly, I'm shocked that this has only been done now, this is the only way Microsoft can complete, through a suffocating monopoly. Any other market where MS is forced to compete shows them clearly to be technically inept, xbox 360 50% failure rate, billions spent on Bing with little gain in market share and the very latest debacle, the Kin, a mobile phone released to great fanfare only a few weeks ago, now terminated with a grand total of 600 paying customers. It was supposed to happen sooner or later and since it did happen, no southern charms but a true miracle will help MS to fight this monopoly back.
Kalinda - 19th September 2011 11:40 - #
I don't feel like the country should back draw the monopoly like this. The best thing to do over the internet is getting new things from the developers and various other resources. May be S. Korea would have other plans to deal with. portland injury lawyer
BarbaraEHil - 22nd October 2011 10:38 - #

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