From webmail to Facebook: the future of Thunderbird
 

*Source: PC Pro (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/130046/f...derbird.html)*
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Compared to the runaway success of Firefox, Mozilla's email client, Thunderbird, has always been the bridesmaid and never the bride. Increasingly in Firefox's shadow and laregly ignored by Mozilla, something drastic needed to be done - and in September it was.

Mozilla spun off a new company dedicated to the email client, allocated it $3 million, and told it to go make something of itself. We caught up with Dr David Ascher, the man appointed to lead the new company, to find out what the future holds for Thunderbird.

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