There's a big share of email-users market that sticks with well established, web-based email clients like Yahoo, MSN or the latest G-mail. But the newly released Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 aims to become a better alternative for the dominant email client, Outlook Express. Thunderbird especially targets those points where Outlook Express continuously fails & frustrates its users.

Trying to figure out a stream in banning one email client or another is no easy job. As soon as somebody rises up saying Outlook is bad, somebody else comes saying it's good and the other one is bad. And the story goes on and on.