Those of us who work in the Technology field daily see the value of mature Open Source projects every day. They are better designed, with tighter engineering and more robust frameworks and underpinnings.

The French Military seems to agree. When they encountered the need to build additional secure components for use internally Microsoft Outlook just didn’t cut it. I would assume their lack of transparency and the shear manageability of the Outlook/Office bloat had the French Military Software Engineers pulling their stockings up and running straight for the hills.

After branching their own version of Thunderbird into TrustedBird some of the advancements they made have worked their way back into Thunderbird 3, making it better for everyone.

If your using Thunderbird 2 today, you’ll most likely want to upgrade to 3.

1. From Thunderbird Click “Help” > “Check for Update…”  you’ll be prompted through the update process.

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