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Even governments hate Internet Explorer

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Internet Explorer logoIt’s come to something when even the State has to speak out on how atrociously bad a piece of software is. In this case, the French and German governments have seen fit to declare Microsoft Internet Explorer a security threat and issued official statements advising users to switch to Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

Surprise surprise however; the British government has decided to go along with the Americans on this issue. The Americans being Microsoft and the issue being the gaping security holes in IE.

The British government have decided not to endorse this view and recommended that instead users take a look at getsafeonline.org. And would you believe it, apart from sounding like some kind of online contraceptive, getsafeonline.org has been set up by both the British government and Microsoft, amongst others.

While I don’t generally agree with states sticking their nose in on such issues – and most are absolutely years behind on this one – I do think powerful interests need to take a stand against Microsoft. They have cunningly managed to ensure that Internet Explorer has found its way into almost every home computer by bundling it with Windows and it’s taken until the release of Windows 7 for users to be spared having it pre-installed when they purchase their machine.

Ok, so I’m a Mac user and a bit biased on this issue. But today I’m once again a little ashamed of my government: so vive la France and well done Germany!

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