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Mozilla Lightning to Challenge Outlook

Posted by michael on from the stormy-weather dept.

MS IE Bug Finder writes "Although Microsoft is dismissing Mozilla Lightning, the article indicates the combination of Thunderbird (mail) with Sunbird (calendaring) should be a worthy opponent against Outlook by the middle of the new year." Reader EvilStein adds a link to the Lightning Q&A.

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  1. On the first day of Linux by suso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    my penguin gave to me...
    Bill Gates on the Street.

    On the second day of Linux my penguin gave to me two
    email clients and Bill Gates on the street.

    On the third day of Linux...

  2. Uggggh by BHearsum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone else notice that anything done in XUL is a sluggish piece of shit? Get it out of my face.

    Speaking of sluggish, anyone else notice that firefox still has horrible memory leaks despite being 'stable'? Fucking ridiculous.

  3. Re:Unless there is going to be a Sunbird server... by gnuguru · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In a pure Outlook versus Anything Else contest it would be possible to eventually give a richer client experience than the Microsoft product, it would take a long time, because Outlook is remarkably mature, but it would be possible.
    The linux user model and directory struture is superior to Microsofts. Information a user wants published is located in the users ~/hmtl directory.
    This information is then published by the servers publication daemons, er "services". I.E. ftp, www, finger, etc.
    Further, the server is able to easily distribute slash diseminate the users information within a user defineable trusted pathway.
    This model works on a scale of millions of users and millions of servers, with plenty of scope for refinement.
    Tell me one more time why I should let one universally untrusted content viewer deal with this, given the diversity of open source servers which must universally agree with each other and *practise* security under intense scrutiny.
    One reason?.
  4. AI to SVG. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Here's something slightly OT, but related.

    I have the Mozilla Logo in Adobe Illustrator format (.ai). However little of OSS can read it correctly (except Adobe Reader). I can get it into ps format, but I still can't get it into SVG format (eventual destination) from there.

  5. who needs clients? by tyresyas · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who cares about clients when gmail gives you a gig of storage?