IT Dabbles with Firefox, But Few Plan To Switch from IE
The Firefox Web browser has been causing a commotion among users and snaring snippets of market share from Microsoft's Internet Explorer since June -- long before Version 1.0 of the open-source software was officially released earlier this month. But statistics suggest that corporate users aren't the major group fueling the growth of Firefox.
Source: TechNewsWorld
submitted by: CammanThe new browser's most dramatic spikes in usage are on weekends, according to Chris Huffman, director of engineering at the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation , which developed Firefox.
That observation was borne out by an e-mail poll of IT managers conducted last week by Computerworld. Only two of the 25 respondents said their organizations have standardized on Firefox. Another 11 said they have tried Firefox or use it on a personal basis. But 17 said that their companies have no current plans to re-evaluate their decisions to go with Internet Explorer.
"We've been standardized on Microsoft Internet Explorer for as long as we've had a standard," said Patricia Coffey, an assistant vice president in IT at Allstate Insurance Co. in Northbrook, Ill. "Basically, we run Microsoft on the desktop as our standard, so we use IE, Office, Outlook, etc."
Allstate's "big gripe ... is the security issues with Microsoft," Coffey said. But she added that the insurer is content with IE from a features standpoint.
Source: TechNewsWorld
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