On Wednesday 20 January 2010 09:42 AM, Amol Hatwar wrote:
On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya<[email protected]> wrote:
The French government has joined the German government and suggested its
citizens stay away from Microsoft's Internet explorer. This is a welcome
move considering the security risk Microsoft's Internet Explorer creates.
Similar action may be taken against other Microsoft products as well.
In addition to warning citizens to stay away from Internet Explorer,
governments should also consider blocking Microsoft from bundling Windows
operating systems with PCs.
http://katonda.com/blog/548/why-governments-should-ban-microsoft-internet-explorer
good one, see my blog post at http://gnowgi.org/
I was recently telling a Govt-sector employee about these decisions in the EU.
He retorted
"We can't all use GNU/Linux ".
The point being that alternatives like Firefox and Google Chrome are not that
well known.
Also, software that is free (as in price) in the Windows is taken with great
suspicion. In the
corporate environment, users don't have rights to install tools/software on
their systems.
Head of IT/Network Admin takes the call. People want to switch, but they aren't
allowed or
aren't aware.
Surely, we must all take efforts in popularizing and spreading the word.
Especially so when
news items like these come out...
just blogged about the german and french government's decision on
banning IE.
www.digitallyfree.blogspot.com with my analysis.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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