beng, bryner, asa in Journal du Dimanche
By glazou on Sunday 21 November 2004, 11:47 - Mozilla - Permalink
Today's issue of Le Journal du Dimanche in France, has a short introduction on Firefox on the front page and two long columns in page 17. With a big color photo of Ben Goodger, Brian Ryner and Asa Dotzler. I'll scan it tomorrow morning and provide a translation. Overall, the article is very positive, and they even interviewed a Microsoft France's manager who acknowledged that Firefox's focus on security is a concern for Microsoft. The guy also quotes Thunderbird, directly challenging Outlook.
Note for the MozFo people: I'll send you the pages by postal mail so you have a real physical copy.
BTW, the MSFT guy is right, FF 1.0 is here now, it's now HIGHLY time to focus on Mozilla Thunderbird, offer the full power of Mozilla.org's home page to the forthcoming Thunderbird 1.0, have a working spreadthunderbird.com and so on. THUNDERBIRD ARE GO!
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*cheers for Thunderbird*
Although it's nowhere near Outlook yet. Outlook Express it can replace entirely, yes, but Outlook... Still needs some work :).
Outlook Express is the version commonly used on home PCs. Most viruses are spread by email, several using security holes in Outlook Express / Internet Explorer to self-install themselves. I think that a campain to replace Outlook Express with Thunderbird has great potential.
Yes, let's not forget, if you want calendar capabilities like Outlook, there's still Sunbird! Most people don't even know about Sunbird, so it's time to give these projects a push.
"[. . .] it's now HIGHLY time to focus on Mozilla Thunderbird, offer the full power of Mozilla.org's home page to the forthcoming Thunderbird 1.0, have a working spreadthunderbird.com and so on. THUNDERBIRD ARE GO!"
yes.
"Yes, let's not forget, if you want calendar capabilities like Outlook, there's still Sunbird!"
Is it too early to promote Sunbird?
Yes, it is probably too early to promote sunbird, however, that project could use a few more active devs.
Did you ever get a chance to scan this? I used to know Brian Ryner before he started working on Mozilla.