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22/07/2012

Sparrow for Windows was 'just a few weeks away,' says developer (update: it wasn't)

Sparrow for Windows was 'just a few weeks away,' says developer (update: it wasn't): Sparrow for Windows






A developer who worked with the Sparrow team has divulged his work on a Windows version of the popular email client, and says that a beta was due sometime in the next few weeks — that is, until Sparrow was acquired by Google and ceased its development efforts earlier this week. The developer, Panos Tsimpoglou, details the effort in a blog post, and says that he had been "green lighted" by Sparrow CEO Dom Leca after pitching the idea over email about a year ago. After he got the go ahead, Tsimpoglou says that he traveled to France in April to meet with Sparrow's founders to discuss the project, and that the group agreed to meet again in June or July to work out the final details — a meeting that never happened.
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