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News Thunderbird Not As Successful As Firefox, Says Report
"MS Outlook Is Simply Too Entrenched"
Apr. 9, 2005 12:00 AM
Available for free, and offering state of the art security functionality, including Firefox HTML rendering, Bayesian spam filtering, image blocking, and virus protection, the Thunderbird e-mail client "stacks up well against MS Outlook in terms of functionality," says a report, but isn't having the same kind of success in the e-mail market that Firefox had in the browser market.
Thunderbird?s biggest weakness is that as yet it has no calendaring.
"With an army of open source developers and a strong grassroots campaign, Thunderbird has the potential to win over at least some of the current MS Outlook installed base," the report - compiled by The Radicati Group, a technology research form - states.
But "MS Outlook is simply too entrenched in the lives of too many e-mail users to be displaced and has hundreds of third party plug-ins that give it additional functionality," it concludes.
And the good news? "We believe Thunderbird will provide needed competition in what has been a stale market for the last few years."
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ray commented on 8 Apr 2005
Thunderbird DOES have an address book (contacts) and the calendar extension (also for Firefox and stand-alone as Sunbird) has Tasks and Alarms.
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Basil commented on 8 Apr 2005
Interoperability is a big thing. Thunderbird needs to import Outlook data easily. On the Mac, Thunderbird needs better integration with the OS X address book. I use Thunderbird everywhere but under OS X, because Thunderbird is unable to sync with the central address book store -- which is critical for syncing with a PDA or cell phone.
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dave commented on 8 Apr 2005
uhh, yeah, Thunderbird doesn't have Calendar and To-Do because those would be in Sunbird. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html
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Dave Rooney commented on 8 Apr 2005
T-bird is good, but isn't quite there for what I need... I want the Calendar, Contacts, Tasks & Notes that Outlook gives. Also, T-bird choked when trying to convert my Outlook data. Finally, it doesn't support dial-up networking directly, which I use daily on my notebook when at work.
It's really close, but just not quite there yet... the e-mail client itself is very good, but I just need some other 'stuff' right now.
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an0n commented on 8 Apr 2005
Thunderbird 1.0.2, from a user's perspective, looks identical to version 1.0.
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T/bird commented on 8 Apr 2005
Can you create mailing lists from the address book in Thunderbird, the way you can in Yahoo! Mail...?
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