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Why Desktop Email Still Trumps Webmail
p3net writes "Shortly before the release of Thunderbird 2.0 RC1, Wired held an interesting interview with Scott MacGregor, the lead developer of Thunderbird. He presents some views as to why desktop email clients still triumph, even in this much-dominated web age. 'Some users want to have their data local for privacy and control. Furthermore, you can integrate data from different applications on the desktop in ways that you can't do with web-based solutions, unless you stick to web solutions from a single provider. For example, you can use your Outlook address book with Thunderbird. We'd like to continue to expand the kinds of data you can share between Thunderbird and other apps (both web and desktop applications).'"
[Offtopic] Holy crap, that's multiple good posts by you in the last several days. I might have to drop you from my foe list (I wish I could remember how you got there in the first place.) [/Offtopic]
"but money is the God of Algiers & Mahomet their prophet." - Rich. O'Bryen June 8th 1786
*aims at foot*
This ring a bell? (Lower your mod threshold.)
Could you *maybe* entertain the possibility that I'm an otherwise intelligent, well-meaning non-troll who got unjustifiably burned on an Ubuntu install despite following the instructions, and has a valid crticism of its design process?
Apology to Ubuntu forum.