The French police are dumping Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) for Mozilla's Firefox. The French Gendarmes will convert their 70,000 odd desktops to Mozilla's Firefox browser and its email client - Thunderbird, because of Firefox's "reliability, security and inter-operability with other state services.
The switch to an open source navigator follows the police department's decision last year to migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice for all of its desktops.
Interestingly other branches of the French government viz the interior ministry, customs, equipment ministry, culture ministry and most importantly the finance ministry have also moved to Open Source.
The switch to an open source navigator follows the police department's decision last year to migrate from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice for all of its desktops.
Interestingly other branches of the French government viz the interior ministry, customs, equipment ministry, culture ministry and most importantly the finance ministry have also moved to Open Source.