Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Petr Krcmar writes "Thunderbird 3.0 Alpha 1 was released last month. A few months before, two main developers left the project and development was moved from the Mozilla Corporation to the Mozilla Messaging, the new subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. We had the opportunity to ask some questions to David Ascher, Mozilla Messaging CEO. The interview is about present and future of Thunderbird and about related projects like SeaMonkey, Spicebird and Mozilla Calendar."

Comments

Vowels

[BadAnalogyGuy]

Petr Krcmar

Son, you ain't got quite enough vowels in your name.

Pfff...

[mark72005]

I don't know what I will do if it doesn't duplicate all Outlook's amazing features like

-Being slower than sh#^ starting up or closing down
-Always telling me I didn't close it properly when I did, and making me sit through some shadowy scanning procedure that doesn't seem to do anything.
-Slow performance when sorting
-Slow performance when searching
-Slow to initially render the Outlook today page
-Resource pig for the simple functionality you get

How will I ever survive without something JUST LIKE OUTLOOK?

Re:Thunderbird, Mozilla Mail's Worst Misfeature

[Anonymous Coward]

Who do I have to blow to get plain text mail made the default?

Me, for a start!

Re:Thunderbird 3 Alpha 1 Screenshot

[Errtu76]

Pah, i wouldn't use it. Have you seen how blurry certain parts of the screen are? It's totally useless in its current form.

Re:PIM as Social Network Tool? Yes!

[Qzukk]

Wait, wait, so you're saying if we merged this PIM thing with social networking, we just might actually get someone laid?!