Rob wrote:
Rufus <[email protected]> wrote:
But I'm still left curious about these "business users"...I should think
that the SM user base would be far higher if employers were
adopting/requiring it...which I've been waving the flag for for the last
couple decades....
Businesses don't like the idea that security updates are combined with
feature updates. When they need to update because of security reasons,
they want to keep the same featureset but with fixed security. They
like to test new featuresets and fix or work around issues before they
are rolled out.
Yes, and there are other security flaws in the Password Manager that I
can see now exactly why it's not allowed in my work environment.
This is incompatible with the Mozilla Seamonkey release scheme, and mostly
also with Firefox's. I think that is why you see the usage only dropping.
Actually, I see Firefox usage increasing as people get fed up with
IE....at least at my company. I'm in the field, but I think in
corporate locations they control distribution of FF updates internally,
so the "latest" may not always be what's in use on the job...but at
least we still get a choice.
We have been using Mozilla (first Netscape, then Mozilla, then Seamonkey)
for well over a decade but finally we are going to convert to Outlook.
Seamonkey is nice, but it just isn't fit-for-business anymore.
We went from using a mix of Netscape and IE to IE only, in conjunction
with Outlook; and Outlook is used strictly for e-mail only.
I think the main reason that our environment never adopted Mozilla or SM
is *because* of it's ability to configure for usenet access, again for
security as well as time-wasting reasons. Not having a usenet feature
in Firefox is what makes it allowable for us as an alternative, IMO.
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- Rufus
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