Thunderbird 2 awarded a Softy

Thunderbird 2.0, currently in development, has already started to pick recognitions. Maximum PC April’s edition features its annual Softy award winners:

Thunderbird 2.0 has finally brought Gmail-style tags to your desktop email client. Instead of sorting your messages caveman-style by placing them in static folders -where they’ll rot for eternity- Thunderbird lets you apply as many tags as you like to any message. This allows you to build dynamic search folders based on your tags (or subject, sender, or date received, for that matter), Thunderbird kicks ass!

Gaim, the amazing open source instant messenger, CCleaner, Skype, Torpark, a Firefox-based anonymous browser; PortableApps, which includes Portable Firefox; WinAudit, Google Maps, Logmein Hamachi and Last.fm were the other winners.