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Dell Pre-Installing Firefox in UK
seizer writes "Blake Ross, creator of Firefox, has confirmed on his blog that Dell are now shipping Firefox on all desktop and laptop machines in the UK. While rumours had been floating around before this, and UK buyers had been reporting that 1.0.6 came pre-installed, this is the first official confirmation of Dell's decision. Is the US next?"
Doesn't 1.0.6 have known problems? Is Dell shipping security risks now?
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Don't be stupid mate, nothing will turn people off "open source" faster then OO, it sucks, uses massive amounts of memory, and turns out things that don't allways "work" But hey, open source, everyone go have a joygasm just cause its got open source at the front of whatever it is your peddling today! :P
Jesus christ, relax and get off your high horse, there Mr. Professional. I'm Director of IT at a good sized company and know what I'm talking about. The native Windows stuff works well enough for me as far as docking and power options go and I did forget to mention I would replace the trial version of Mcafee with Grisoft Free Edition or my licensed corporate Syamntec if for my company. However...I know better than to issue Dells for this company I work for. We run IBMs for developers (need dual boot with Suse or Redhat) and I started issuing Powerbooks to execs and salesguys about a year ago. Best ROI I've ever seen.
Anyway, it's very nice you trumpet your consulting/IT experience. I've got it too. And if you recommend Mcafee to your clients with their ActiveX crap, you're not making the informed decsions they pay you to make. Also, I'm 31.
This guy is way out there