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<font face="Calibri">When I first came to the Thunderbird project
there was much talk about Thunderbird being aimed at home users,
it was even given as a reason for not integrating a calendar.
What I would like to stimulate is a little discussion on who are
our users and are they actually "home" users. <br>
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In support we see a flow of silver surfers and business folk on
the whole. Many of whom are trying to make Thunderbird work on
their hosted domain. Two things are apparent. Those seeking
support mostly have very little skill in actually using their
device. For instance they have to have "copy to clipboard" from
the troubleshooting information explained to them. They have no
idea what a clipboard is and are wary of the term.<br>
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</font>So w<font face="Calibri"><font face="Calibri">ho are we
building this software for?<br>
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If it is home users, where are our migration wizards to hold
their hand.<br>
If it is business users, where are our business features to lock
down the user interface and account settings.<br>
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Firefox appear to have managed to decide business is important
and have implemented GPO support for windows.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-policy-engine/">https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/01/11/announcing-esr60-policy-engine/</a><br>
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Should we also be doing this?<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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