French cops dump Internet Explorer
 

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FRENCH POLICE are abandoning Microsoft's Internet Explorer and will go for Firefox.


General Christian Brachet, IT director of the French police force said that more than 70,000 desktops will be converted to Firefox and its email client Thunderchicken because it was more reliable, secure and worked better with other state services.

Brachet said that IE will be off all machines by the end of the year. He said the main reason for the change was because Firefox was based on the W3C standard, an international norm for the world wide wibble, and works equally well under Microsoft, Mac or Linux.

Brachet wants people to be able to report a theft to the police via the Internet and this is possible if everyone is using the WC3 standard. Although we would have thought that sending an email to the emergency services is a little like a scene from the 'IT crowd' to be practical.

The move to Fireferret follows a move from VoleOffice to OpenOffice. The change is likely to save the French coppers more than two million Euro a year. More ici la.

The INQuirer

Fireferret? Thunderchicken?