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Your 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 mov
by colourgarden 6y ago
Your 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