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Microsoft takes email design back 5 years

6 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/microsoft-takes-email-design-back-5-years.46497/

anandk
anandk Original post #1
Jan 15, 2007 at 6:44 PM
"If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.*smilies.sofrayt.com/%5E/d/ohwell.gif

Outlook enjoys a 75-80% share of the corporate email market, which is similar to Internet Explorer's share of the browser market - they make the rules."

what this means ?
No background images
Poor background color support
No support for float or position
Shocking box model support


This really changes the rules of the game says this post.
iMav
iMav #2
Jan 15, 2007 at 6:49 PM
well as of now i know many corporate companies make use of the templates in outlook .... the first 2 points will certainly change that
B
brutality9k #3
Jan 15, 2007 at 8:16 PM
well....bad move. But they had to do it, i mean, if there is a flaw in IE rendering engine, it also affects the Outlook Rendering engine too, so for security reasons they should remove it indeed.

& yeah, corporate enviroment use templates a lot, they save nearly 60% of the time they spends sending mails
Ashis
Ashis #4
Jan 16, 2007 at 11:13 PM
They will realise there mistake & Upgrade soon!
anandk
anandk #5
Jan 20, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
techtronic
Jan 20, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Thank You for Posting