No Ashes, But Rising Up from Stagnation!
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Announced today, a new division of the Mozilla Group, Mozilla Messaging, will re-start the development of the e-mail client, Thunderbird. This is great news for the faithful, as several missteps and balks by Mozilla made many wonder if Thunderbird was going the way of the dodo, or the HD DVD(!)
new life again, just like Spring!
The announcement made today clears up what is going to happen and while a certain time frame was not revealed, it was clear that the progress bar on the Thunderbird screen has not stalled forever.
Also not disclosed was the size of the development team, so it is unclear how many of the old team remain, and how many from the Eudora team are still around. The work will focus on making the e-mail client more reliable and full-featured, much like the high-priced spread (Outlook).
Hopefully more details and a timetable will be forthcoming soon.
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[tags] Thunderbird, Mozilla, Firefox, Eudora, Penelope, e-mail client [/tags]
2 Comments
Cliffystones
February 20th, 2008
at 9:31am
I love Thunderbird! Been using it for years. Whatever they do, I hope they don’t morph it into “bloatware” like so many (once simple) programs have become. Or at least, keep a stripped-down version for those of us who like to “keep it simple”.
the oracle
February 20th, 2008
at 3:18pm
Cliffystones - you might want to hang on to what you have now if you’re happy. I know I liked Thunderbird untill they put a non-working RSS reader in it.
The word from the new company is that the new features will incorporate more of the feature set of Outlook. Outlook is nice, but a bit heavy duty for most people, and I’m not sure that people would like all the features included, even with the program being gratis.