Microsoft-outlook

Technology - The fact that Word continues to manage the display of HTML in Outlook 2010 has created a petition, supported by Twitter. Faced with tens of thousands of subscribers, Microsoft has decided to defend himself.

"Outlook is broken. Repair it. "That is what we read in large characters on the site fixoutlook.org, a page devoted to the decision to keep Microsoft Word as an engine to display HTML-formatted emails in Outlook 2010.

Catch on the support, the authors of this page show the display of emails has not changed since Outlook 2000 and Word is the worst software to display HTML emails. They also explain that emails created in Outlook display poorly in other software.

To boost its petition, fixoutlook.org created an account on Twitter and there are already over 20 000 users rallied to their cause.

Until now deaf in the campaign, Microsoft has finally decided to react. On the official blog of the firm, William Kennedy, Vice-President in charge of the Office, justifies the choice to keep Word as display engine.

Also catch on the support, said that the usefulness of Word is especially in the creation of complex emails. It also explains that there is no standard HTML format, showing that Word is solely responsible for the display issues.

Delighted to have a response from Microsoft, the authors of the campaign immediately responded, pointing out that the root of the problem is not displaying emails, but how Word creates emails in HTML format.