If you want a true 2010 email experience sign up for: http://gmail.com
Adam Ostrow
· 5 months ago
haha, indeed
dddddolemite
· 5 months ago
Gmail has issues too - no support for CSS background images.
Annoying for developers who have to report to dumb marketing people who always ask where their awesomez gradient behind the body copy is in gmail every time? Probably. Better for the user? Probably.
Brandon Carson
· 5 months ago
Sounds like what we really need is a replacement for Outlook, something similar to the way Firefox is trumping IE. I doubt Thunderbird will be up to the task though.
PeterTork
· 5 months ago
I like my outlook just fine -- leave it alone!
Zach Bray
· 5 months ago
and this is why people hate outlook
MathieuB
· 5 months ago
Way not to listen to your customers Microsoft. You will be remembered for that when you come down crashing.
A business that ignores its customers wants is bound to die.
Jason Barone
· 5 months ago
Couldn't agree more.
Alex Williams
· 5 months ago
I think the problem is that this isn't customers complaining, it's marketers. The average email user has no idea what this post is about. Those same people are their best customers. Sigh...
Bonochromatic
· 5 months ago
Um, and how precisely is Microsoft going to come crashing down? Your sentiment is heartfelt, but let's be realistic - there is no alternative to Microsoft for 90% of the computer un-savvy people out there.
Get in line, take your medicine, and go away like a good boy. That's what Microsoft wants, and that's what they're going to get, because we're going to keep paying for it.
Chris London
· 5 months ago
Seems like a great time to finally convert... Outlook has way too many flaws... how about that single file mailbox? No chance that causes problems when it hits 500 MB or so...
mrshl
· 5 months ago
This isn't so bad. Preserving a great experience for their Office customers makes perfect sense right now. Want them to change? Do what Google is trying to do.
Beat them at email.
jef
· 5 months ago
Well, how many of them would buy a single copy of Outlook 2010? Maybe that's what Microsoft is counting on.
Dan Grossman
· 5 months ago
Good for Microsoft.
This protest consists of 99% people who don't use Outlook anyway, and are just joining a meme because it's "cool".
And it's all started by Campaign Monitor, a company that profits from sending HTML mails.
The whole thing is just a marketing gimmick to get more web designers to sign up for their service.
thank you microsoft . i guess you have finally decided to give up outlook just like you gave up IE. Google how about a replacement like chromelook ?
MathieuB
· 5 months ago
I think that they call it 'Gmail' ;)
markfinch
· 5 months ago
I personally don't mind if they use Word as the editor. I don't use oulook and don't care what it uses to create emails as long as the HTML it produces is standards compliant and renders in other email clients. I do care about how it renders emails I send and it really should use the default web browser to render them.
The reason Outlook is the virus haven it has become is that Word Macro Viruses are easy to port to Outlook. I had a friend who booted up an old laptop that's virus scanner was out of date and sent me an email. It took me a day to get my inbox cleaned out of all the spam that virus sent. So if M$ really is so intent on using Word maybe they should take responsibility for all the Virus' they propagate due to their flawed technology. Do I smell a class action coming, smells a little like that Old McDonalds burnt coffee that burned you every time. It took a class action for that to get fixed.
Eric Laffoon
· 5 months ago
And here I thought Outlook was broken because it allowed the most novice of scripters to send an email that would wipe your hard drive and all your friends hard drives. Anybody remember Melissa or Iluvu? As a web developer I remember it taking over 6 years for MS to finally adhere to standards on transparent PNG images. That was back when people were getting hit for $5000 if they had patented low res GIF files on their web sites.
I can't count the all the instances of egregiously poor responsiveness to customers Microsoft has been notorious for over the years. They have the only computing platform plagued with viral exploits today and that hasn't put people off. It is disgusting when people think harassing a convicted monopolist to perpetuate their dependencies makes more sense than seeking an alternative solution.
On my PC I'm running KMail on KDE/Linux and it displays HTML fine... but I default to text so I can spot phishers. MS is busy with browsers now because Firefox took market share and search engines because they want to be Google. Grab a clue. Vote with your feet if you want your vote to count.
KD
· 5 months ago
I think it's clear that 'fixoutlook' is a marketing gimmick by Campaign Monitor. And for some, just say something is bad about Microsoft and they'd support it no matter what. Cheers to Microsoft for calling them out.
priyanka
· 5 months ago
20,000 active twitter users... means active outlook users too. MS should listen!
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If you want a true 2010 email experience sign up for: http://gmail.com
Annoying for developers who have to report to dumb marketing people who always ask where their awesomez gradient behind the body copy is in gmail every time? Probably. Better for the user? Probably.
A business that ignores its customers wants is bound to die.
Get in line, take your medicine, and go away like a good boy. That's what Microsoft wants, and that's what they're going to get, because we're going to keep paying for it.
Beat them at email.
This protest consists of 99% people who don't use Outlook anyway, and are just joining a meme because it's "cool".
And it's all started by Campaign Monitor, a company that profits from sending HTML mails.
The whole thing is just a marketing gimmick to get more web designers to sign up for their service.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com
The reason Outlook is the virus haven it has become is that Word Macro Viruses are easy to port to Outlook. I had a friend who booted up an old laptop that's virus scanner was out of date and sent me an email. It took me a day to get my inbox cleaned out of all the spam that virus sent. So if M$ really is so intent on using Word maybe they should take responsibility for all the Virus' they propagate due to their flawed technology. Do I smell a class action coming, smells a little like that Old McDonalds burnt coffee that burned you every time. It took a class action for that to get fixed.
I can't count the all the instances of egregiously poor responsiveness to customers Microsoft has been notorious for over the years. They have the only computing platform plagued with viral exploits today and that hasn't put people off. It is disgusting when people think harassing a convicted monopolist to perpetuate their dependencies makes more sense than seeking an alternative solution.
On my PC I'm running KMail on KDE/Linux and it displays HTML fine... but I default to text so I can spot phishers. MS is busy with browsers now because Firefox took market share and search engines because they want to be Google. Grab a clue. Vote with your feet if you want your vote to count.