Jun24
twitter, outlook 2007, microsoft, mob mentality, outlook 2010, fixoutlook.org
YOU FIX
The Email Standards Project by way of Campaign Monitor is pleading with the developers at Microsoft. Microsoft are insisting on keeping the Word HTML rendering engine (most recently used with Outlook 2007) in place for their next release of a predictably disappointing and bloated email client, Outlook 2010.
For anyone who has designed and coded an email in the past three years knows how big a pain in the butt Outlook 2007 is to work with. There has been an outcry from day one about it’s drawbacks, as it has done nothing to push the flexibility and growth of email forward. It’s done quite the opposite, I’m afraid. For starters, it doesn’t allow background images and it has crap support for CSS. See Campaign Monitor’s example here:
Microsoft wants to continue their reign of mediocrity, and I for one, have had ENOUGH.
If you go to fixoutlook.org you can use your Twitter account to send a clear message to Microsoft:
“Wow! @msofficeus is breaking HTML email by using Word to display emails in Outlook 2010. See http://fixoutlook.org and RT”
The site displays every Twitter user who has included “fixoutlook.org” in a tweet. As of 9AM this morning, there have been over 10,000 tweets. This is an incredibly effective way to help our pleas resonate. It puts face to the name for the petition, which I’m not sure has been done before. Hopefully, this will force Microsoft developers to second guess their decision… Hopefully it will make a difference.
So let’s show the fatcats at MS what the mob mentality can accomplish. Let our voices be heard!
Posted by Bryan Quilty on Jun. 24, 2009