Mozilla Launches Internet Mail and Communications Initiative

[NJC]

From mozillazine:


Latest off the press is that Thunderbird has undergone a vast overhaul of its internal structure, getting "Dr. David Ascher, currently CTO and VP Engineering of ActiveState", to establish a new company focused on mail.

Mitchell Baker adds that "The goals for the new company are:

* Take care of Thunderbird users
* Move Thunderbird forward to provide better, deeper email solutions
* Create a better user experience for a range of Internet communications
* Spark the types of community involvement and innovation that we've seen around web "browsing" and Firefox. "


http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=585722

[curuxz]

So this is marketing spin for moz saying 'we dont want thunderbird any more so how can we ofload it without looking bad'....

Meh, I remain unimpressed by thunderbird its just too damn buggy :(

Thanks for the link i have been wondering when this would be made offical :)

[NJC]

It would have been better if I had included Thunderbird in the title - oh well.

As for Tbird being buggy, v2.0 is quite good. But I still don't recommend Tbird because it's still an immature product IMO. I hope this venture will help it develop further.