There was some discussion recently on the Editors' Association of Canada mailing list about email software, and several of us admitted to still using Eudora, which was orphaned over two years ago. It was first released in 1988, if I recall, and I'm still plugging away with version 5.1.
Some ardent fans are looking for replacements, as the Penelope project that was going to meld Eudora into Thunderbird doesn't seem to be progressing much.
Most people cited HTML-formatted email and display of other languages as two reasons to move on. I've come close to switching to Thunderbird several times, but the momentum of using Eudora for well over a decade keeps me shying away. Change! Learning a new interface and keyboard commands!
But I'll have to bite the bullet one of these days, because while I also have all of my email sent to Gmail, I still like downloading mail to my local computer.
Anyway, when I was poking around looking for Eudora-related material on the Web, I ran across this blast from the past:
"QUALCOMM's Eudora Software Selected by Microsoft for Distribution with Internet Explorer; Agreement joins most popular Internet email application with state-of-the-art Macintosh Web browser to provide integrated Internet messaging capabilities"
Business Wire, June 17, 1996
How times have changed...
Posted by Paul at January 14, 2009 12:52 PM