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Mozilla Messaging Devs Don't Want To Duplicate Outlook

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-be-to-the-gods-for-that dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Nice Article, Misleading Summary. by gnutoo · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Outlook had a few nice interface ideas but it's underpinnings are rotten. It has not been updated in years and the single database for all of your information makes it little more than a toy. The atomized aproach taken by all the free software projects is superior, allowing for faster accesss, easy portability and data integrity. Years ago, they had a device advantage for sync but Open and portable are all the rage today. The only thing that Outlook has was good integration of information. Lightning should follow that and probably will, so that there may be a superficial resemblence to the interfaces.