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	Gendarmes dump IE


	Submitted by zetro on Sunday, February 5, 2006 - 18:10	News \| Security
	OPEN SOURCE supporters have been given a shot in the arm by news the French police are abandoning Microsoft's Internet Explorer for Mozilla Firefox. The gendarmerie's 70,000 desktops were being converted to Firefox and its email client Thunderbird because of the navigator's "reliability, security and inter-operability with other state services," said General Christian Brachet, IT director of the police force. Read the rest here

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