Replacing FireFox For IE?
It was a sad day last Friday when I uninstalled Firefox from our terminal servers. At the same time, I upgraded from Internet Explorer 6 to IE 7, which fortunately has most of the spiffy features that we’ve all grown to love about Firefox (especially tabbed browsing).
I had previously been happy to give students the choice of browsers and had even set the default to Firefox, since so many students and staff had adopted the IE alternative (often at my urging). However, our business applications teacher brought a significant problem with Firefox to my attention.
As part of our recent upgrades, we went ahead and rolled out Office 2007. The vast majority of students really like the new interface and even teachers are intrigued by the additional features and intuitive toolbars, although the learning curve is a bit scary for some of the teachers who have been using Office 2000 for the last 7 years.
The one feature that our business teacher really likes, though, is the seamless integration of the Office suite with a vast library of templates online. Her Powerpoint students especially like the countless themes that they can download in a couple of clicks.
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ciper on 03 May 2007 at 6:42 pm #
Your story says that a “a significant problem with Firefox” was brought to your attention but you forgot to tell us what the problem was!
confused on 15 Oct 2007 at 4:50 pm #
Umm .. Hmmm .. can’t say i saw a reason for your post “Replacing FireFox For IE?”
“business applications teacher brought a significant problem with Firefox to my attention” GREAT.. we would all like to know.. but ahhh… are ya gonna tells us? or you just like to ramble on about nothing ?
And what does Office 2007 have to do with your issue ??