I'm cautiously optimistic. It's certainly the most realistic business plan their leadership has put forward in a long time.

And a Mozilla/Thunderbird based email service is well timed. Microsoft's upgrade (read: downgrade) of the newest version of Outlook, making it a glorified web app, has pissed of a lot of users who aren't the sort to browse hacker spaces but do have to use serious email and calendaring every day for their work.

Even if those folks don't see Thunderbird as an alternative to what Outlook/Exchange was, it'll absolutely be an alternative to what Microsoft is turning Outlook into... [1][2][3]

And there's something devilishly funny about the fact that, because DDG uses Bing on the backend, when I search for articles to cite... Everything that comes up trashing the new Outlook is from MSN.

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-new-outlook-fo...

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/windows-11-takes-small-...

[3]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/even-microsoft-s-a...

Yes, and maybe timely with many Countries looking to wean themselves off US based.

I wonder if this service can be segregated by region ?

For example, can people in Europe use a service that is fully based in Europe.