Another overreaction from Chris Pirillo. The fact that he wants to spend more time on formatting his Lockergnome newsletter than all his readers combined are actually looking at it, is not a realistic resemblance of everyday email usage. Most of that email correspondence can easily be done in Plain Text as well so the fact that Word/Outlook 2007 doesn?t support some (advanced) features doesn?t have any impact on most of us.
Did you notice that there are more mail clients out there that require their own layout tweaking or are you solely designing to include each and every feature that is not supported by Outlook 2007 just to prove your point? Displaying advanced formatted newsletters in Gmail isn?t exactly looking pretty either.
I know you have a lot of followers all around the world and I do think that sometimes you have a real good point. Not on this occasion though, not on what was quoted in this article. If you really want to use your voice on this matter use it for the parts that are broken and actually do have a real impact on people; accessibility support.
Please read up here for my view on this issue and feel free to discuss it afterwards;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/wordhtml.htm
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
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