I’ve discovered that in addition to their usage of older operating systems, they still rely heavily on Microsoft Outlook in conjunction with an Exchange server.įor the self-employed and home users out there, Web mail wins hands down. The exception to this rule is with medium to large companies. Webmail in 2016įlash forward to 2016 and there’s no question that Web mail has overtaken locally installed email clients for most people. While most people were still locked into using installed email clients to access their ISP email accounts, Hotmail users were empowered with a taste of freedom. Hotmail offered another thing that was unique, you were free to access your email from any web browser from any desktop computer that had access to the Internet. And while countless others soon appeared, Hotmail was a service that was first to free people from being married to their ISP assigned email accounts. To the best of my knowledge, this was the first widely used web-based email option available. Then something called Hotmail came onto the scene.

Next, you took the login credentials provided by your ISP, then configured local email clients like Outlook Express (Windows) to access them. To use these accounts, you needed to first setup the account over the phone with your ISP. Telco ISPs and various dial-up resellers used to provide their customers with email accounts that were incredibly limited and annoying to use. There was a time not so many years ago when getting access to email meant having an ISP. In today’s article, we’ll examine why this happened to Thunderbird and explore where email seems to be headed as a whole. What was once loved by legions of users has now been placed onto the market for others to adopt it. Most recently, the news that Mozilla is finally letting Thunderbird go took a lot of folks by complete surprise. Not because of anything negative, rather because Mozilla is trying to refocus their efforts with Firefox. Unfortunately over the past few years Thunderbird’s importance with Mozilla has faltered. The point is: Thunderbird is near and dear to my heart. I started using it on Windows and then installed it onto my Linux PCs later on. I have used Thunderbird off and on since about 2003.

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