Given the growing success of Firefox, a new Mozilla-based project code-named ‘Lightning’ may be worth keeping an eye on.
Lightning is the working project name for an extension to tightly integrate calendar functionality (scheduling, tasks, etc.) into Thunderbird.
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Q. Is Lightning meant as a competitor to Outlook?
A. With Lightning, Mozilla Thunderbird will have a set of user features that is much more competitive with Outlook, especially in enterprise usage. The primary goal of Lightning is to provide a pleasant and productive user experience for both email and calendaring tasks, largely independent of specific competitors’ product plans. If the result of the Lightning project is an acceleration of users’ migration from Outlook to Thunderbird, though, very few tears will be shed.
Thunderbird with calendaring features would be very cool.
answers to "ask mike shaver": Interesting interview with guy behind the upcoming "Lightning" calendaring application (we talked about it here). It seems to be coming along nicely. We want to have a first "usable" version out this summer, in June or July. We've been calling this "0.8" lately, on the reasoning…
Thunderbird Finds It Hard To Mimic Firefox's Rapid Rise, Says Report: A report has been released which indicates that Thunderbird is not flourishing the way Firefox is. Thunderbird's major shortcoming is the absence of an integrated calendar, the report says. A future release is expected to fill that void. Once calendaring…
this is the only thing keeping me from switching right now.