Hillary Clinton thinks saving money is complicated

I'm sure a LOT of people would like for this to happen, but what most regular consumers like us don't realize is that it takes a LOT more work than just going to a computer, navigating to their site, and hitting Download. For one thing, they'd also have to patch EVERY program, utility and script that they use that integrates itself with IE.

Sure, it may be free, but switching browsers is FAR more significant for a government institution than it is for a single individual on a personal computer.

You don't have to patch anything, They can still use ie6 for their special apps and use an alternative for regular browsing.  Who said you can't have 2 browsers in your computer ? We did that for a company i used to work with. We used ie6 for our special applications and Chrome for browsing.

They have no idea...

"..to do more things like Firefox." Yes. "Firefoxing" seems like a great thing to "do".

"Nothing is free??? Heck, I just downloaded the latest free version. You could have one guy download it for an entire department for free, no? I use it because I don't trust Micro$oft for NOTHING and they monopolize TOO MUCH. And I'm tired of new operating systems every couple years making for obsolete computers.

This is retarded.

.they are lols:D

Sorry, I can't hear you over the UUUUUUHHHHHHHHS.

Nothing is free. In a real workplace IT must roll out software for a percentage of the user base because they can't do it themselves. A percentage of the user base can't be trusted to roll out software because they will spend all day fiddling with their machine and not doing their job. The last percentage (represented by the "It's free" people can do it, but are usually blocked from doing so because of the first two groups. Ce'st La Vie - wait for the next rollout.

Whatever money they spend on Firefox they'll save when they don't have to clean up IE6's malware problems. Most people in the State Department already use Firefox at home anyway (hence the cheering), so user unfamiliarity won't be a problem. As far as updating goes, Firefox updates itself unlike IE6, so that takes care of that. As far as people screwing around at work, they already have a browser, so you won't see extra screwing around. The U.S. State department has every reason to upgrade.

"The answer is: at the moment it's an expense question."
"Its free"