Mozilla fails to crack enterprise

Best of the blogs: If you live in the 21st century, you stopped using Internet Explorer some time ago, writes Matt Asay in Open Sources. "It's ugly, invites unwanted malware, and has been behind the innovation curve for years. All of which makes it the more frustrating that Mozilla has been kept at bay in the enterprise. Mitchell Baker, head of Mozilla, was quoted recently with some explanation of this silliness: "Enterprises have intranets that only work with (Microsoft's) IE," Baker said. "We can't fix their intranet."

Columnists' corner: David L. Margulius gives some glimpses of how some techies de-stress in Tech jobs take stress to whole new level "[According] to a recent Wall Street Journal article, some of them participate in a worldwide online simulation of — of all things — the air traffic control system." Sound calming to you? Talk back to us below.

The news beat: Security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Symantec's enterprise antivirus software; Microsoft confirms Ultimate Office; Vista's rating tool is retooled following criticism from hardware makers; and Google has struck a deal with the Dell to factory-install Google desktop, toolbar, search engine and homepage on consumer and SMB desktops and notebooks worldwide. Buh-bye Microsoft, Dell says in one fell swoop.

Posted by Mike Barton on May 26, 2006 08:07 AM

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I have Mozilla, Opera and Firefox on my machine since I tried them out -- and frankly I never use
them. Why, because regardless of what you or some others think, I prefer IE. I like the interface better,
and I HATE tabbed browzing.

Posted by: Jay Finkelstein at May 26, 2006 12:24 PM

"Sound calming to you?"

Well yes. Consider: Highly trained, motivated and skilled problem solving professionals don't find complexity stressfull. It is quite rewarding to untangle a complex problem properly. However, to untangle a complex problem properly, present the results to a PHB, who then does the opposite of what logic and reason dictate - that is stress. Written over and over is the lesson from online gaming practitioners - it is not the complexity, or even the reasonableness of the online rules that matters, but rather the _consistencey_.

Posted by: Timothy J. Bogart at May 26, 2006 12:51 PM

My company actually banned Firefox from corporate computers. Group policy restricts Firefox, Google desktop search, iTunes, what else? Kinda frustrating.

Posted by: db at May 30, 2006 05:13 AM

My organization used to use Netscape rather than IE but found that the tools to manage IE across a huge base of PCs were FAR more effective that those for Netscape/Mozilla (such tools of which are essentially non-existant). Maintaining Mozilla's (local) configuration file on each PC is a particular headache - particularly if you need to modify/update it (e.g. with each revision of Mozilla ...). Any why does this configuration file have to change with each major release of Mozilla? Mozilla was clearly designed for installation and updates by individual users rather than from an automated corporate software depot.

Posted by: Roger at May 30, 2006 11:35 AM

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