Sunday, 26. December 2004
Topic: Free - on December 26, 2004 at 12:37:00 PM CET
Mozilla's Lightning to strike Outlook?
The Mozilla Foundation is hatching yet another software project to challenge a ke y Microsoft title.
The new project, code-named Lightning, aims to integrate Mozilla's calendar application, Sunbird, with its recently released Thunderbird e-mail application. That integration is aimed right at the heart of Microsoft's widely used Outlook software.
"I think Outlook leaves a lot of room for a fast competitor," said a Mozilla volunteer involved in the project, who asked not to be named. "There's a lot of user dissatisfaction out there, and it will be interesting to see what the market looks like once there's a strong open-source alternative."
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