

Research firms estimate that fighting junk mail and viruses are costing billions of dollars each year. “Thunderbird is the perfect companion to Firefox and demonstrates another success of the open source development model.”

“Thunderbird 1.0 marks another successful product milestone for the Mozilla Foundation, made possible by hundreds of community volunteers and developers around the world,” commented Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation. Thunderbird is now available in English, German, Greek, and Turkish with more languages on the way. Today’s announcement marks the immediate availability of Thunderbird 1.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux-as a free download from and by CD from the Mozilla Store. Mozilla Thunderbird follows last month’s highly successful release of Mozilla Firefox 1.0 that has been downloaded by over nine million users. Thunderbird focuses on new features and settings to help stop spam and prevent viruses, the two biggest problems facing email users today. – Decem– The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 email client. Mozilla Foundation announces the release of its open source email software
