With the advent of open source applications, Microsoft’s monopoly in the computing world is gradually getting eroded day by day. The latest in the growing list is the release of Thunder Bird 2.0, the much vaunted email client alternative to Outlook Express. Get your free download at GetThunderBird in over 35 languages of your choice.
Preview of ThunderBird 2.0 features
- Access to popular mail services like Gmail
- Improved user interface and themes
- Create custom message tags for organizing email
- Session, Message History Navigation
- Enhanced support for third party extensions
- New mail alert notifications ( includes message preview)
- Folder mouse-over popus that gives new message summaries
- Improved move/copy functionality
- Enhancements and fixes for Windows Vista
- New windows installer
The only downside of this inherently powerful email client is the lack of an inbuilt separate calendar application.