Sam Ramji, head of Microsofts opensourcelaboratory, offered Mozilla-developers to see to that Firefox and Thunderbird would work fine under Windows Vista. Meanwhile the Mozilla-developers showed, by mouth of Loaf Beltzner, to certainly have interest in this cooperation. The past time Firefox- and Thunderbird-programmers already tested if their software still works as it should under Windows Vista. There has also been added a code to the software to make it compatible to work with the 'Default Program' -infrastructure, by which at one central place the standard programs are adjusted for certain uses such as, surfing on the internet or listening to music.
It is also a good idea to look at the effects of the security features of Windows Vista on Firefox and Thunderbird and integration with InfoCard could possibly be a good idea, according to Beltzner. Another thing to look into, according to Beltzner, is to let Firefox and Thunderbird make use of the central warehouse for RSS- and Atom-feeds in the new Windows-version, and an integration of Thunderbird with the calendar and the address book in Windows Vista. These are some of the ideas that Firefox has and with the assistance of Microsoft are hoping to accomplish. If all these ideas will worked out is yet unknown, but there is still a lot to do for the Mozilla- and Microsoft-developers.
