Microsoft got your post from fixoutlook.org, still not listening

The worst way to market your company is really to hear what people say about you, and then still enforce what you believe is correct:

http://blogs.msdn.com/outlook/archive/2009/06/24/the-power-of-word-in-outlook.aspx#comments


This is freaking stupid idea- basically, we are not complaining the use of Word as the mail composer, but the use of Word as the mail renderer for EVERY EMAIL. The solution is very simple- if Outlook see there is an x-header saying the email is from another outlook client, use Word engine, otherwise, use Gecko (if you can't afford to pay your IE team for the engine!) I don't see any reason not to use this as it fix both worlds- Outlook users are happy about their sophisticated Word experience, yet they still read all other emails properly. The only reason I can think of, is MS still trying to mess around the standard game, first its IE, now IE failed, so they start this again on Outlook. As a user who cares about future computing, you should really go ahead and ditch Outlook. Its just so simple- people ditched IE, so IE8 finally is standard compliant. If you ditch Outlook today, 5 years later you will have a finally working properly Outlook.