Mozilla takes email closer to the cloud
Published: 09 Nov 2009 08:18 GMT
For almost all of its existence, Mozilla Messaging has been known for Thunderbird — email software with the traditional view that a person's PC is the centre of their computing existence.
Now, however, the Mozilla Foundation subsidiary's scope is expanding beyond the confines of the computer under a user's desk or on their lap. In the near term, the new Thunderbird 3 is becoming more integrated with the web. And in the longer term, the Raindrop project has the potential to lift your inbox all the way to the cloud.
"For us it's really important to have Thunderbird. It's also important to not stay in the blinders of that scenario," Mozilla Messaging chief executive David Ascher said in an interview at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California. With Raindrop: "We're focusing on best experience for messaging in a web application."
For the full story, see Mozilla's email group looks toward the cloud on CNET News.
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