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Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Bonochromatic — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:25:35 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Priyanka Dalal — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:58:03 -0000

20,000 active twitter users... means active outlook users too. MS should listen!

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

MathieuB — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:11:46 -0000

I think that they call it 'Gmail' ;)

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

KD — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:10:52 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Alex Williams — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:36:20 -0000

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...

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Eric Laffoon — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:17:51 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

markfinch — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:21:47 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

KK — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:37:17 -0000

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 ?

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

paramendra — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:32:56 -0000

I say let the conversation continue.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Nancy Seeger — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:33:21 -0000

The "King of Webstandards" comments on Microsoft's assertion there are no email standards http://www.zeldman.com/2009...

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Dan Grossman — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:17:02 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

jef — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:14:17 -0000

Well, how many of them would buy a single copy of Outlook 2010? Maybe that's what Microsoft is counting on.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

mrshl — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:59:11 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

dddddolemite — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:32:55 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Chris London — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:18:25 -0000

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...

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Zach Bray — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:04:40 -0000

and this is why people hate outlook

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

PeterTork — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:03:12 -0000

I like my outlook just fine -- leave it alone!

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Brandon Carson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:57:53 -0000

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.

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Adam Ostrow — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:56:11 -0000

haha, indeed

Re: Microsoft Sees Your Tweets, But They’re Not Fixing Outlook

Joe Brooks — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:52:12 -0000

Screw you Microsoft!

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