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Microsoft Breaks HTML Email Rendering in Outlook 2007. They’ve dropped the IE renderer and replaced it with... Microsoft Word! No CSS background images, no floats, no CSS positioning, no forms. Wow.

Posted 10th January 2007 at 8:18 am

3 comments

So it's not possible to not use Microsoft Word anymore? Or is it just that when Microsoft Word is chosen as Outlook's e-mail writer/renderer, Word is used everywhere? If Microsoft Word can't be turned off, then: Yikes!

Asbjørn Ulsberg - 12th January 2007 13:21 - #
I think it's more that they've taken the text editing component from Word and embedded it in Outlook, for both composing and viewing e-mails. I haven't seen the software myself so that's just my interpretation.
Simon Willison - 12th January 2007 14:10 - #
The only people who care about Outlook 2007 using Word to render its emails, and the loss of the aforementioned features are designers and developer. Not USERS!

What user said "I wish I got more of those pointless marketing emails!".
What user said "I could just go a big background picture for my emails!"
What user said "I wish I could trach the open count of my emails!"

Not I...

Martin Hinshelwood - 16th January 2007 15:36 - #