Mozilla, after taking on the Internet browser market which is "owned" by microsoft now decided to take on the Email Client Market, which is also controlled by Microsoft. The Mozilla Foundation announced the worldwide availabilty of the Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 email client.

The Client is developed by hundreds of contributors to the open-source community, and will be available on the Windows platform.

The Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 e-mail Client download can be found on Mozilla's homepage.