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"Fun" fact: Outlook today still uses Word to render HTML, which is about as capable as IE3 released in 1996.
by shaicoleman 6y ago
"Fun" fact: Outlook today still uses Word to render HTML, which is about as capable as IE3 released in 1996.
- colourgarden 6y agoYour use of the word "still" is a little misleading. IE _was_ the default email rendering engine until 2007 when Microsoft made the inexplicable decision to move to Word 2007 instead.
- dragonwriter 6y agoOutlook is part of Office; Word is part of Office. IE, and now Edge, is a different business unit. Not inexplicable at all. NIH doesn't only apply at corporate boundaries.
- unilynx 6y agoMy theory is still that it was about using Word as a component to write replies. However, if they delayed the HTML->Word conversion to that point, everyone would complain to MS "Reply is broken!" By using Word as a viewer the email is broken right on delivery and users now complain "The email you sent me is broken!" At least it's still better than Notes
- tambourine_man 6y agoIt's not that simple. It used to have a more capable renderer, they rolled it back to the Word one (no animated GIFs!) and have since upgraded again. So Outlook 2007-2016 is really crappy, versions before and after that, a bit less so. The lovely world of enterprise software.
- 908087 6y agoEmphasis on the "a bit" part. I had to deal with it for the first time in years recently, and the most recent version is still a nightmare in every way.