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Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
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The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
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I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
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In related news, the ISPs club together to get the members of the Home Affairs Select Committee (ya goofed on that part, ZDNet UK) copies of "The...
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Talkback
I use Thunderbird at work and at home and it is superb. As the article says, the Spam filtering is so good that you go back to using email the way it was meant.
I have converted several of my colleagues to use Thunderbird and they are all happy using it.
Give it a try !
Hi James,
You may not be talking to enough people because I know a few very large companies who are looking to deploy Mozilla solutions for both Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird.
And, if you don't think Firefox and Thunderbird are hitting the mainstream I'm amazed that there's 17 million tech savvy users out there. Aren't you? You'd think there'd be a handful of less savvy users in there?
-Rafael
The times, they are a changing. At my company, we integrate a product made in our Taiwan office, works great with IE (The web portal and javascript OA&M interface). Being part of the interface to a telecom product, and all telco's are security extremists, lab trials failed because neither Mozilla or Firefox or Netscape, the ONLY ACCEPTABLE AND ALLOWED BROWSERs in the production environment (i.e. critical security areas running UNIX or Linux only, you don't find a lot of Windows in telcom offices), didn't work. The reason, relying on IE's MIME sniffer (or rather automatic virus propagation feature) the coder's got lazy in the javascript. Guess what, within 2 weeks, everything was tightened up, Firefox works great, and the customer is deploying the product. Amazing too, I told them for months it didn't work except with IE, they too scoffed, who cares, IE rules.
Something else to keep in mind, if there are 16M downloads of Firefox and 2M downloads of Thunderbird, then there are at least 32M firefox users and 4M thunderbird users because, like me, it came packaged with my distro, so I didn't download them.
Kevin
Times are changing. iWork, Macmini and Firefox are at the forefront of competition against Microsoft and they won't be ignored forever. Also when looking at Firefox download counts you have to think about people who carry the portable versions of Firefox, Thunderbird and Sunbird on their memory sticks ready to install onto machines of less tech-savvy people.
Thunderbird works on a daily basis for me. OK, I'm only dealing with 100-200 emails, but Thunderbird has proven itself. The best part is, it will only get better.
Here's a little $100m company that uses Firefox exclusively. Adios, MS!
I've sent y'all an email but for the benefit of Joe Public, the vast majority of my TB adopters are not techies. They're ordinary people who want things to Just Work(tm) and do that safely.