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This gravely scares me...

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It looks like Outlook 2007 is ditching IE7 as it's HTML rendering engine and using Word's engine instead...that's right... MS Word. Microsoft has successfully set Emails five years back.

http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/arc ... ign_b.html
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that's disgusting. :? :evil:
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WOW! That's lame. Designing html email was already a pain in the neck... To go backwards and not forwards in technology is even worse. It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
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Yeah I just read it today. It's unbelievable.

All the fuss about IE7 getting so standard-compliant, and then this. I cannot believe it. Word??? I hate those calls from clients when they have pasted some Word text into a HTML page and ask me why their page looks so funny... aaaargh.

I planned on doing more with html-Email, but I'm not so sure anymore. I like challenges, but hacking together tables and font-tags??

With this step they delay the progress of html-Email with 10 years.
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Microsoft just continues to give developers the finger and say "we're making things easy for our least tech savvy-users, no matter how difficult it makes your life". I understand this decision, this is spot on:
It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Microsoft just continues to give developers the finger and say "we're making things easy for our least tech savvy-users, no matter how difficult it makes your life". I understand this decision, this is spot on:
It's probably to satisfy crabby office ladies need to design emails in word.
But why not make things easier for everybody and make Word use IE as its renderer??
Exactly.

Horrible move.
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Developers! Developers! Developers! @#$!#@
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neophyte wrote:Developers! Developers! Developers! @#$!#@
yea... developers developers developers... we love developers... YEA OK. :roll:
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Considering all the wonderful 'advancements' Microsoft is making in it's products lately, I'll be surprised if they last through the next 10 years.

Disgusting.
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What scares me most is the fact that people actually use Faultlook...
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timvw wrote:What scares me most is the fact that people actually use Faultlook...
What is the "pro's" choice these days for email client apps? I switched over to thunderbird a while back but moved back over to Outlook after having some problems. Any suggestions?
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I use outlook at work because that's what everybody else uses... for my personal email... GMail all the way. It's awesome.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:for my personal email... GMail all the way. It's awesome.
But you can't set up POP3's and all that fancy jazz with gmail can you?
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I'm pretty sure you can have pop3 with gmail, both ways.

I use Thunderbird 2 beta - It solved a lot of the issues I had with 1.5x... Try it!
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don't need all that fancy jazz (nor was I aware it didn't have it). I use personal email for sending/receiving email. I need to be able to do that easily and intuitively and be able to search my email easily. Gmail nails all of those.
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