Microsoft Outlook 2000 vs 2010
Outlook 2000 vs 2010
A picture says a thousend words. Well, this one says three, What the Fuck?
It looks like Microsoft Outlook 2010 (torrent/mirror) is going to use the old, non-standared following, HTML render engine that Internet Explorer used and now Word uses! (dont we all love it?) Apparently MS is using this old engine to stay consistant and not suffer any performance loss, here a quote from an Outlook Product Manager Dev:
“I am aware of where this decision on our part places Outlook from a standards perspective – at the same time, we ask that you consider the benefits Outlook users get from having Word tools in their e-mail authoring experience. [...] Having multiple HTML engines could reduce performance, as well as create an inconsistency in terms of what type of content the user is able to create vs. consume.” – Source
I’m not sure he has a point, they should just fix their damn engine if they’re so worried about performance lost and inconsistency. I hope the campain against this change works, remember it’s still a beta! If it dosent, I just hope people start using alternatives like Thunderbird, Kontact, Mutt, Evolution or any other mail client whose developers actually care about displaying web pages correctly by following certain standards.
In: Technology, Windows · Tagged with: e-mail, email, microsoft, office 2010, outlook, Windows
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on June 26, 2009 at 2:45 am
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Microsoft just has no idea what they are doing. This is a dumb move and I agree they should just fix their damn engine. Or better yet, just let people know that if they really must use an email client on their computer, there are better, less expensive (and even free) options out there.