THE MOZILLA FOUNDATION is planning a serious upgrade to its open source desktop email client, Thunderbird.
Thunderbird has been around for a long time now and is starting to feel extremely clunky and dated, plus it doesn’t have support for Archiving, Labelling and other features unique to Gmail.
This has instantly put it at a disadvantage. Gmail’s 1.4 billion accounts haven’t been served properly and this puts the usefulness of Thunderbird as an open source alternative to Outlook at an extreme disadvantage.