I even reinstalled the entire Office suite including Outlook on mothership desktop, so I now I’ve successfully tested reinstallation. But since I have most of my several e-mails routed through Google mail servers, I was still able to use my mail while Microsoft solved the problem. Recently, in the first-ever significant mistake Microsoft made during the period I’ve had the Outlook/Office licenses installed, Microsoft broke some hidden cloud servers and everyone’s Outlook went dark for around 2 1/2 hours. Which means when I use my laptop it syncs the Outloook PST file onto itself. I point both installations of Outlook 2019 to a shared cloud drive folder. I own the Office client licenses for $50 each. I avoid paying annual licensing whenever I can. One for my mothership desktop, and one for my laptop. I bought two separate, non-subscription, Office 2019 Home and Business licenses for $50 each. Outlook 2019 has been steadily reliable for me. I revisited the idea of Thunderbird before support for Office 2010 was sunsetted in 2020.Īt that time, I decided that I would stick with Outlook, using its 2019 version for several reasons, especially that support for it was easier and faster for me to find if something might break. The last time I tested Thunderbird was around 2010, right before I opted for Outlook 2010 contained inside an Office 2010 Professional Plus license. But their software is the “devil I know”, and that’s better for me than the “devil I don’t know” □ At the point Chrome took the lead as the top browser in mid-2012, it had not yet become the default preinstalled browser on Android, which happened with the Android 4.2 release in October 2012.Ī Microsoft fan I am not. Chrome was coming on strong at that point, and soon both Firefox and IE were shedding market share to Chrome, a trend that continues to this day for both IE and Firefox. They were increasing users each month, while IE was shedding them. These users are going out and downloading another browser rather than just using the one that’s preinstalled.Īt the height of Firefox’s popularity, they were in the neighborhood of 32% market share. On the Windows platform, Chrome is the leader, even though Windows has come with Edge for approaching seven years now, and IE prior to that. It’s not just the “preinstalled” bit that makes Chrome the top browser, though. I would not have bought the phone if there was not a degoogled alternative OS for that model, which is why I only got my first smart phone about half a year ago (and I am pretty tired of lugging the gigantic thing around, so I may go back to flip phone again). My formerly-Android phone came with Chrome, but (like Android proper) that’s gone. The PC I am using right now (Dell XPS 13 Developer’s Edition, as they call it) came with Firefox as the default preinstalled browser on Ubuntu 20.04. Chrome, Safari, and Edge are default browsers while Firefox, Vivaldi, Opera, and others are always an optional, after-the-fact choice. Remember, Chrome is on every Android phone and has a strong presence on PCs. Tragically, I believe Chrome is closer to 65%. This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Will Fastie. Mozilla has also made a huge and valuable contribution to the Web with the Mozilla Developer Network, which includes one of the best Web technologies documentation repositories available. I still use Firefox every day and not just because I’m a Web developer. Long ago I (and thousands of others) contributed a modest sum in Mozilla’s fundraising effort to get Firefox out the door because at that moment competition for Microsoft was desperately needed. I want Mozilla to continue and for both Firefox and Thunderbird to survive. This is good news because making Thunderbird a separate entity probably improves its chances for survival, but in my mind the funding issue remains. I should note that since January, Thunderbird has not been a direct Mozilla project but rather handled by its fully-owned subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corporation. Mozilla appears to be working on a new business model that includes revenue generating services but we don’t know that future direction yet. For some time Mozilla has relied on ad revenues from Google, a situation that has changed. … so when you mentioned ‘worry’ and ‘Mozilla’ in the same sentence, I took notice.
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