68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox

An anonymous reader writes "mozillaZine is reporting that over two-thirds of British universities and colleges have installed Mozilla or Firefox on their campus computers. They cite an open source survey by OSS Watch that also shows rising support for Mozilla Thunderbird, Moodle and Octave, though a decline for OpenOffice and LaTeX. Predictably, all open source offerings are blown away by Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office's 100% deployment rates."

Comments

Re:What's the big deal...?

[Anon-Admin]

IE7 is standards compliant; It even improves on the standards with all new features!
It is free for Windows, everyone runs windows.
It is safe, provided you run the anti-spy ware, anti-virus, anti-add ware, and a good firewall.

See IE7 can touch it and improve on it!

Man I am glad I run Linux!

In other news...

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news... widespread use of communist software leads students to piracy, joblessness, and anti-Americanism.

Remaining tech chic

[Lance_Denmark]

What?! Firefox is becoming popular? Oh man now I am going to have to use Opera in order to sneer down my superior nose at what browser people are using.

Re:disappointing numbers

[LindseyJ]

We defiantly have a long way to go to catch up to their European counterparts.

Indeed...

Omgili is your firend.

[MarkusQ]

Seriously, when you see a word like "Moodle" that you don't know, why don't you just Omgili for it?

--MarkusQ

That does it.

[jd]

I am going to create a search engine called glappershnoodlifrica, which will index only projects with utterly stupid names.