Testing, deploying, and supporting new software costs money. There's no way around it and it's not directly related to the expense of the software licenses required.

The guy doesn't even say it would be more expensive than IE. Just that adding IT support for a new browser is an expense question and hasn't been answered yet.

Does Firefox officially provide MSI packages yet? I seem to remember people saying there were a number of issues which made it painful to administrate (for a large corporation) compared to IE.

I find it funny that the US is doing this, while here in Canada, the government still only officially supports Netscape, even though Netscape itself is no longer supported.

The initial expense of doing something is almost always greater than doing nothing.

The long term expense of doing many things is often less than doing nothing. Otherwise, no one would ever do anything.

A myopic bureaucrat? Naaa...

IE is also free and more secure. Why would they want to switch?