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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 10:40 AM
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I work for a Software and IT company, and I know from experience that for businesses to switch to Firefox does cost money. Not for the software, but for training and support. Also, Microsoft .NET applications used by business are not supported through Firefox.

Workers hate change, and learning curves cost money.

That said, I think the switch would be worth it.

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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 11:03 AM
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Holy crap those people are stupid. That's like refusing Broadband and going with AOL Dial-Up.


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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 11:14 AM
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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 01:15 PM
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QUOTE (Tony Trombone @ Jul 16 2009, 06:14 PM)
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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 02:21 PM
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QUOTE (Xander @ Jul 16 2009, 11:40 AM)
I work for a Software and IT company, and I know from experience that for businesses to switch to Firefox does cost money. Not for the software, but for training and support. Also, Microsoft .NET applications used by business are not supported through Firefox.

Workers hate change, and learning curves cost money.

That said, I think the switch would be worth it.

then what was the microsoft .net extension they snuck into firefox in a windows update? just a security hole, or did it have a practical purpose?

also, is there really that much of a learning curve between IE and Firefox? the UI can be made to be practically identical.


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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 07:35 PM
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Oh, sure, they'll try to support it. But the fact is, it's not 100% supported, not by a long shot.

And no, it doesn't take much learning, but office workers HATE changing their routine. Ask any IT person. smile.gif


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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 08:05 PM
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QUOTE (OniLink10 @ Jul 16 2009, 02:43 AM)
I'm tempted to move out of the country now. I don't want to live in a country whose Government is this stupid.

waaaah my government doesnt use a better internet browser THIS COUNTRY SUCKS


seriously. This is completely useless, if you want to use Firefox then take a couple of seconds to download it.


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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 08:55 PM
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QUOTE (Lightning @ Jul 16 2009, 08:21 PM)
then what was the microsoft .net extension they snuck into firefox in a windows update? just a security hole, or did it have a practical purpose?

also, is there really that much of a learning curve between IE and Firefox? the UI can be made to be practically identical.

Like microsoft **** will ever work right.


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Posted: Jul 16 2009, 09:01 PM
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well Im using a microsoft windows laptop from WAL-MART.
and it still hasn't exploded so im pretty surprised.

But yeah firefox is better and he should get over his ego and freakin fess up that he made a mistake.


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Posted: Jul 17 2009, 12:13 AM
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Honestly, the only reason for keeping IE6 around is because of corporate applications that were designed for it.

Which would you rather do, spend >$50,000 to upgrade the software licenses, just so your employees can use a different browser, or spend $0 to keep using the unupgraded application, which works just fine as it is anyhow?


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Posted: Jul 17 2009, 11:16 AM
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QUOTE (Tony Trombone @ Jul 16 2009, 09:14 AM)
why fix what isn't broken

>IE
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Posted: Jul 17 2009, 12:36 PM
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QUOTE (Spritanium @ Jul 17 2009, 11:16 AM)
>IE
>not broken

Why would the U.S. gub'mint hide such failures, if they existed?


As is the case many times in these "arguments", I'm going to go back to the very first thing I said (and, if I should want to continue in this discussion, I'll probably do it again and again.

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