Comments on: Microsoft: Outlook is Not “Broken”

By: William

William — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:00:23 +0000

MS sucks! May the company be doomed to failure! I'm sure tired of all of their crap!
Unfortunately if you work in IT you can get a message like "You guys are the only ones who have trouble with our messages." That's only true of course if all the other people are using Outlook 2007 and above instead of Outlook 2003 or Thunderbird or whatever.

By: fnordok « /dev/blog

fnordok « /dev/blog — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:09:18 +0000

[...] fő oka, hogy az email és általában az internetes etikett szabályai kipusztultak (ld pl tofu). A microsoft nem hajlandó ezen változtatni, továbbra is lehet worddel levelet írni. bah! ascii ribbon [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:27:29 +0000

Why would Microsoft fix Outlook? They have a monopoly and don’t need to fix anything if they don’t feel like it.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:42:25 +0000

Backward in thinking? Most of what Microsoft does is backward in thinking. Of course they’ll win this “battle.” The deck is stacked in their favor. Since when does Microsoft put user preferences over corporate interest?

@James Pearce: market forces don’t apply in the presence of a monopoly.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:32:20 +0000

SWITCH, you fools!

Outlook is the biggest pile of crap out there. Just find another email client.

By: Jeremy Haile

Jeremy Haile — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:53:32 +0000

MS isn’t listening to its user base or developer base again. I hope that Mozilla can pick up the pace on Thunderbird and make it more user friendly so they can strip away more users from Outlook.

MS is once again behind the times and ignoring HTML standards. There may not be any standards for “rendering email” but there are standards for how to render HTML. Saying otherwise is like saying “there’s no standard for how PNGs should be rendered in email.”

By: David Worthington

David Worthington — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:14:34 +0000

I talked about this with Jean Paoli and Craig Shank over lunch yesterday. They were not even aware, and said that they would look into it. They are the two top interop people at Microsoft.

By: John Baxter

John Baxter — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:05:38 +0000

As a hermit who sends over 95% of his outgoing email in plain text, I say: “So what?”.

As for incoming mail, my rule has always been “if it is hard to read, throw it away–there is lots of other email out there.”

By: Stilgar

Stilgar — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:51:36 +0000

MS is their own worst enemy. Much like Windows is losing ground to Linux (netbooks) and MacOS, Office will continue to lose ground to competitors like Open Office, iWork and Google Docs. I think Office peaked at Office ’95, and everything since then has been feature-creep. How many users/businesses even buy new versions of Office anymore? I bet a lot of companies are still using Office ’97 or 2000. There just aren’t compelling reasons to upgrade. And when the users try to tell MS about new features they’d want (e.g. Open Document support, or the ability to disable the ribbon) and MS just responds with, “you don’t need that.”

By: Angel

Angel — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:01:16 +0000

“The company also goes on to say there is no standard for HTML in e-mail.”

That’s because the same reason there is no standard for HTML in the web: The HTML standards apply everywhere, website and email.

The rendering is wrong, and in conclusion, the program is wrong.

I wish this didn’t affect me, but Outlook has an important userbase that will be upgrading to the 2010 version, because of that many mails have to workaround this bug (no matters how much we try to call it a feature, it’s a bug and a bad behaivour) leaving with worst emails and less style for everytone.

Thanks Microsoft, you really found the way to f*** all of us… again!