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IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser

Posted by kdawson on from the good-thing-orange-goes-with-blue dept.

e9th writes "Ars Technica reports that IBM has adopted Firefox as its company-wide browser. Firefox will be installed on all new employee computers, and all 400,000 employees will be encouraged to use it. Speaking of encouraging Firefox use, IBM VP Bob Sutor blogs: 'We will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox.' I hope this means that if IBM can't navigate a vendor's site with Firefox, they'll just look elsewhere."

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  1. Re:IBM tells Microsoft... by commodore64_love · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It was Big Blue IBM that invented the PC (and AT and XT and so on). Do they still produce IBM-branded personal computers? Or have they conceded defeat to the clone makers?

    As annoying as Apple's various lockdowns are, at least they've managed to maintain control of their hardware. Like Nintendo they may be small but they are still a profitable company.

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  2. Slashdot's great progress by damn_registrars · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So I see slashdot is citing a story on Ars Technica, presumably because slashdot doesn't have anyone on staff with any journalism credentials. That's OK, though, since slashdot has always preferred to be more of an aggregator than a reporter.

    And naturally, people will come here for the great features that slashdot offers, like the metamoderation ... oh wait, that's broken and non-functional. Well, we have a great submission system ... oh wait, that is broken as well. Thankfully we have ... well, I'm sure there is something important that we have here that Ars Technica doesn't have.

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