French cops ditch IE
The French police force plans to ditch Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as its preferred browser software and replace it with Firefox by the end of the year. Up to 70,000 desktops will be switched over to a Firefox and Thunderbird email client set-up because of the combo’s "reliability, security and inter-interoperability with other state services"," General Christian Brachet, IT director of the French police force said.
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