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[El Guru (Al)]

What the heck is Microsoft doing (besides shooting themselves in the foot)?!  If this is true I could see Thunderbird's usage skyrocketing...

So it appears Outlook 2007 (due out next month) s NOT going to use Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine. So what does this mean?

1. No background images - Background images in divs and table cells are gone.
2. Poor background color support - Give a div or table cell a background color, add some text to it and the background color displays fine. Nest another table or div inside though and the background color vanishes.
3. No support for float or position - Completely breaking any CSS based layouts right from the word go. Tables only.
4. Shocking box model support - Very poor support for padding and margin, and you thought IE5 was bad!

For those of you using Windows Live Mail, this is taste of what is to come with Outlook 2007.

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[OldManDeath]

I have not used a computer based email client in a long time.  If I did, it would be Thunderbird.  I would bet that Microsoft is planning to push people towards Live.com for email.

[El Guru (Al)]

I have not used a computer based email client in a long time.  If I did, it would be Thunderbird.  I would bet that Microsoft is planning to push people towards Live.com for email.

I am under the impression that Live.com will eventually phase out Hotmail.

[Ryan Wagner]

I agree that this is pretty ridiculous...I didn't realize that they had changed the rendering engine in Outlook 2007. I think it is good that they moved away from IE but for it to lack those popular features is a little bit stupid.