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It is far from zero. On Windows, it is just not considered Microsoft's problem by most people - the blame is spread across lots of different software vendors/d
by krylon 12y ago
It is far from zero. On Windows, it is just not considered Microsoft's problem by most people - the blame is spread across lots of different software vendors/developers.
Just as an example, at our company, we run a Windows Server 2008 R2 Terminal server, with Outlook 2003 installed for email. A while ago we decided to replace the aging Internet Explorer 8 installed on that machine (shudder) with IE11 (still shudder - but it's company policy), and if people are going to use IE, I thought at least they should use a reasonably current one.
Turns out, that Outlook uses IE for rendering HTML emails, and that Outlook 2003 using IE 9 or newer for that purpose results in HTML mails being truncated randomly. Since some of our users run Outlook almost exclusively in their RDP-sessions instead of their local desktops, this was a rather big deal for us, and it took me a while to figure this problem out.
And keep in mind, this problem was caused by the interaction of two problems written by Microsoft itself. Imagine the non-deterministic fun you can run into with applications by a dozen or more software vendors, running across several versions of Windows, 32 and 64 bit.
(Yes, I kind of needed to vent. Sorry.)
- yuhong 12y agoMS does seem to support Outlook 2003 with IE9 and even released a hotfix for an incompatibility. IE11 was released close to the end of support of Office 2003 though, I wonder what is the support policy in that case.
- krylon 12y agoThanks for the info! Now that Office 2003's support has ended, I don't think Mirosoft will do anything about the problem for newer versions of IE. (If I could, I would also upgrade Outlook on that terminal server, but that is another story altogether.)