68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox

68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox 215

Posted by Zonk on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:24PM from the british-insight dept.

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."

68% of UK Universities and Colleges Use Firefox

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Re:What's the big deal...? (Score:3, Funny)

by Anon-Admin ( 443764 ) writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:39PM (#15905631) Journal

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... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:40PM (#15905645)

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

Re:ie modzilla (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:49PM (#15905715)

lol man dont u now, its because ff has added so much security, it supports 8092bit sll-encryptation for all sites and even colors teh adress-box to make it even more secure. u can even run ff on Lunix, which is even more secure, since Lunix users are basement-dwelling faggots who dont have anything to steal so theres no viruses for teh Lunix-kernal.

Remaining tech chic (Score:2, Funny)

by Lance_Denmark ( 985878 ) writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:50PM (#15905735)

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 (Score:4, Funny)

by LindseyJ ( 983603 ) writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @04:54PM (#15905770)

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

Indeed...

Omgili is your firend. (Score:3, Funny)

by MarkusQ ( 450076 ) writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @05:08PM (#15905919) Journal

Seriously, when you see a word like "Moodle" that you don't know, why don't you just Omgili for it [omgili.com]?
--MarkusQ

That does it. (Score:3, Funny)

by jd ( 1658 ) writes: <imipak@yahoGINSBERGo.com minus poet> on Monday August 14, 2006 @05:26PM (#15906076) Homepage Journal

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

Re:Say what you will about Microsoft, but... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday August 14, 2006 @09:08PM (#15907497)

He is expressing a strong feeling by over-exaggerating his statement with a mathematical function. This rhetorical technique is known as hyperbola.

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Re:What's the big deal...? (Score:3, Funny)

In other news... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:ie modzilla (Score:0, Funny)

Remaining tech chic (Score:2, Funny)

Re:disappointing numbers (Score:4, Funny)

Omgili is your firend. (Score:3, Funny)

That does it. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Say what you will about Microsoft, but... (Score:1, Funny)

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