Outrage after Microsoft decides to ignore web standards in Outlook 2010

Yes, Microsoft is down to it's dirty tactics yet again! A senior member of the Outlook team confirmed they plan on continuing to use Word to render HTML emails. Not only that, but early tests indicate that HTML support in the Word engine has not been improved in any way. Same bugs. Same quirks.

Email Standards Project put in a lot of effort to demonstrate just how bad the Word rendering engine is in Outlook 2010. Here’s exactly the same email rendered in Outlook 2000, and then Outlook 2010. Click the image for a full sized version.



Outlook 2010 is still in beta and a year away from public release. Thankfully, Microsoft want to hear your feedback about this. To send the strongest message yet to Microsoft, the team at Email Standards Project have built fixoutlook.org.



All you have to do is tweet your thoughts about this issue, and make sure you include the fixoutlook.org URL somewhere in the tweet. The more tweets, the more impact, so please start spreading the word today and encourage your friends and colleagues to do the same.