Poll
Question:
How should Mozilla focus & prioritize Thunderbird?
Option 1: According to Option 1
votes: 1
Option 2: According to Option 2
votes: 3
Option 3: According to Option 3
votes: 0
Option 4: None of above
votes: 0
Based on posted entry at Mitchell's blog (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/07/email_futures.html) where he talks about that Mozilla wants to get ride of Thunderbird from the Mozilla portfolio; how do you see the future for Thunderbird? OS2 World posting can be found here - http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14789/2/ (http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14789/2/).
Well, it's hard to know the final results, but possible this can be good for thunderbird. I like it as my main e-mail client at home, but I think that it can be improved a lot more compared to comercial solutions like Lotus Notes and MS Outlook. Possible a new organization can focus more on the email/colaboration area than Mozilla. Let's hope everything goes ok.
Just curious, but what features are you missing out when comparing with Outlook?
Mozilla Thunderbird was at first probably not intended to compete with Microsoft Outlook, rather with Outlook Express. Later enhancements with calendars makes it more competitive than from the beginning. I believe that sort of extensions is was companies look for, not a plain mail client. For personal use it is already all you could ask for.
It's difficult to say how Mozilla.org decision will change the position for Thunderbird but I am personally not worried, it's so popular already.
//bjorso