Microsoft Plans – Fix Outlook 2010

June 25, 2009 by Pintu
Filed under: Microsoft Office 

oMicrosoft’s plans to apply the Word HTML rendering engine to show HTML emails in the future email software program Outlook 2010 is still in the beta stage and Microsoft is a hopeful user to submit feedback to advance the email client before the release candidate and final release are released. Microsoft Outlook 2010 has created quite a few objection websites that try to support Microsoft to modify their plans.

Microsoft Outlook 2010 the main problem that arises when using the Word HTML rendering engine is so as to will not support web standards like CSS or background images. This could very well mean that Outlook 2010 users will be stuck with broken HTML emails for the next years after the release. Below is an image that is showing a HTML email in both Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook 2010:

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Microsoft Outlook 2000 was using the Internet Explorer rendering engine to display HTML emails. Microsoft mentions benefits that Outlook users gain by using Microsoft Word as their email-authoring tool which include automatic styles and templates and Smart Art among other benefits. It would also not be in the best interest performance wise to use a different rendering engine for the display of HTML emails. (Via – Email Standards)


The initiators of the Fix Outlook protest website are making use of Twitter to rally protesters from all over the world. Every Twitter user that mentions fix outlook.org in their tweets will automatically partake in the protest. The avatar icons of users will be displayed on the Website Fix Outlook . Currently more than users have already joined the protest.

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  1. flash on Sun, 5th Jul 2009 11:27 am

    2. Cool!

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