Comments on: Mozilla's Sunbird spreads its wings

Combined with Mozilla Foundation's Thunderbird, the standalone calendar application could take on Outlook.

[David Arbogast]

telling

<<but I can't get anybody who likes the calendar, reminders, etc., to switch from Outlook still.">>

Once upon a time, Open-Source proponents openly complained about Microsoft focus on integration and suggested that integrated products were monolithic and bloated. This was going to be the downfall of Microsoft. Now open-source efforts are being integrated because its the only way real consumers can find enough value to replace their Microsoft tools. Go figure. Hopefully they won't forget that Exchange Server integrates with Active Directory. I mean... you wouldn't want to ask your customers to maintain two seperate databases of all their employees, would you?

we're catching up

and fast.

Needs work

It does not have a plug in that would insert public holidays by country, the days post offices are closed, valentines day, forgetting which, could get you in trouble. So I uninstalled it. Seems to be a solution in search of a problem.

perhaps you didn't realize

that this isn't anywhere a 1.0 release. why news.com decided to report on it is beyond me. it will be feature-full by the 1.0 release.

[katamari]

What?

Then why did the "Mozilla Foundation" release it at all?

Durrr, asl lolz.