First Look: Thunderbird 1.0 a Winner
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Mozilla's upstart e-mail program makes a strong case for dropping Outlook.
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Microsoft's Jim Allchin announces Release Candidate 1 of Windows Vista with "a lot of improvements."
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With just one week left before Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard becomes available, you can now take a guided tour of some of the newest features of the operating system.
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The latest beta of Mozilla's browser has been up and running for
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Mac OS X âLeopard is powerful, polished and carefully conceived. Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner. This Leopard has more than 300 new spots â and most of them are bright ones,â declares David Pogue (New York Times). He points, for example, to two âroutine-changingâ features. Time Machine, which offers âthe shortest setup of any backup system in history.â And Quick Look, which lets you âview the contents of a documentâs icon at full size, right at the desktop, without having to open the program that created it.â Pogue says âitâs fantastic.â
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(InfoWorld) - Mozilla spun off its Thunderbird e-mail client into a new for-profit subsidiary on Monday and seeded the unnamed company with $3 million in startup money, the open-source developer announced. The move is identical to the one made by the umbrella Mozilla Foundation in 2005 when it created Mozilla Corp. to manage Firefox. "The new organization doesn't have a name yet, so I'll call it MailCo here," said Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker on her blog Monday night. "Technically, it will be a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, just like the Mozilla Corporation." MailCo is the result of internal talks and public discussion aboutÂ the future of ThunderbirdÂ that began in July. Then, Baker, who also chairs the Foundation, said that because Firefox was Mozilla's first priority, it had to divest itself of Thunderbird. Among the options she outlined: Creating a new nonprofit organization similar to the Mozilla Foundation to focus on the e-mail program; building a new subsidiary of the foundation just for Thunderbird; and releasing Thunderbird into the wild as a community-only project. Scott MacGregor and David Bienvenu, the two Mozilla employees who headed Thunderbird development efforts, voted for the third option. Today, however, Mozilla chose the second. Most Thunderbird users blasted Baker and Mozilla for wanting to ditch the e-mail program, which competes with Microsoft's Outlook and IBM's Notes, as well as with Web-based e-mail services such as Windows Live Mail, Yahoo Mail, and Google's Gmail. The new company will focus on developing communications software based on the current Thunderbird product, its code base and its brand. The goal is to create a community of developers, similar to the one already in place for Firefox, that's dedicated to working on Thunderbird and associated products. "We can spark the same kind of excitement and energy level and innovation [as with Firefox] in the email/communications space," Baker said. Among MailCo's out-the-gate goals, said Baker, are supporting existing Thunderbird users and creating "a better user experience for a range of Internet communications" that will explore how e-mail should work with other technologies such as RSS, instant messaging, VoIP, and SMS. David Ascher, the former chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at ActiveState Software, a Vancouver, British Columbia development tool maker, will lead the new company, said Baker in a statement. "David has been a respected member of the Mozilla community for many years and we're excited that he is joining Mozilla to lead this important effort." Ascher, also the director of the Python Software Foundation, has led Komodo, a Mozilla-backed, open-source development environment project. Less than two weeks ago, ActiveState debuted its Open Komodo Project, which will switch many of the company's already-free development tools to open-source. Mozilla was set to announce the new venture Tuesday morning, but moved up the news several hours to Monday night when Yahoo said earlier in the day that it wouldÂ acquire Zimbra,Â a privately held Web-based e-mail and collaboration provider, for $350 million. It's unknown whether Mozilla's current in-house Thunderbird developers will continue with the new company. Baker hinted that they may not. In her blog, she explained that the $3 million in seed money for MailCo will "be spent mostly on building a small team of people who are passionate about e-mail and Internet communications." Neither Thunderbird developer Scott MacGregor, who started the project in February 2003, or his co-worker, David Bienvenu, responded to a request for comment. ComputerworldÂ is an InfoWorld affiliate.
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The Mozilla Foundation today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 e-mail client. Thunderbird follows last month&#39;s highly successful release of the open-source browser, Mozilla Firefox 1.0.
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I got hold of the beta version of this much hyped up upgrade to the very popular instant messaging client MSN Messenger 7. I installed it on a test machine to see what new things it has to offer me.
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 Email Client Launched  Dumped IE for the Firefox Browser? Why not trash Outlook and download Mozilla Thunderbird for the full Mozilla online experience. Moziilla Thunderbird, the second major offering from the Mozilla Foundation was released today in a 1.0 ready for distribution version. The Mozilla Foundation is a ...
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A spokesperson for Mozilla said that Thunderbird is another milestone in cooperation between hundreds of open-source community volunteers.
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The Mozilla Foundation (www.mozilla.org), a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 email client.
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Yesterday, Mozilla launched version 1.0 of its Thunderbird e-mail client for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X in the hopes of winning over converts much like its browser cousin Firefox is doing in the browser space.
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The free Thunderbird e-mail client from Mozilla, which complements the group's Firefox browser, combines advanced e-mail sorting functions, first-rate spam filters and lightning-fast performance.
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The newly named Mozilla Messaging subsidiary plans to ship Thunderbird 3.0 by the end of the year with comprehensive search abilities and the Lightning calendar built in.
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Mozilla's latest pre-release version of its browser remains buggy, but performance enhancements give us reason to get excited. In Monkey Bites.