Signaling a shift in its approach to online communication, Mozilla on Monday announced that it is bringing its Messaging subsidiary back within the fold of the main organization, where it will be absorbed into its Mozilla Labs group instead.
Practically, that will mean that Mozilla's popular Thunderbird email client software will now fall into one of two communication-focused projects under way within Mozilla Labs. While development will continue on Thunderbird there, a new and parallel innovation group within Mozilla Labs will focus on "online communications and social interactions on the Web," Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker explained in a blog post on the topic.
The Web has changed a lot in the last few years," Baker wrote. "One of the big changes is how much we now use the Web for messaging, communication and social interactions. We post messages on social networking sites, we tweet, we get messages from applications, we use Web-based mail systems. The pace and importance of innovation in this space is enormous and growing."
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