The Power of Word in Outlook

This morning we became aware of a Twitter crusade run from the website http://fixoutlook.org. This crusade is intended to wage Microsoft with feedback most our decision to move to ingest Microsoft Word for arrangement and displaying e-mail in the upcoming promulgation of Microsoft Outlook 2010. The Email Standards Project, which developed the website that promotes the current Twitter campaign, is hardback by the maker of “email marketing campaign” software.

First, while we don’t yet have a broadly-available beta version of Microsoft Office 2010, we crapper confirm that Outlook 2010 does ingest Word 2010 for arrangement and displaying e-mail, just as it did in Microsoft Office 2007. We’ve made the decision to move to ingest Word for creating e-mail messages because we believe it’s the best e-mail authoring undergo around, with rich tools that our Word customers have enjoyed for over 25 years. Our customers enjoy using a old and coercive agency for creating e-mail, just as they do for creating documents. Word enables Outlook customers to write professional-looking and visually stunning e-mail messages. You crapper read more most this in our whitepaper, outlining the benefits and the reason behind using Word as Outlook’s e-mail editor.

As an example, here are some images that exhibit some of the rich e-mail that our customers crapper send, without having to be a professional HTML scheme designer. In constituent to the old formatting toolbar, Outlook offers coercive Word tools such as automatic styles and templates, charting tools, SmartArt, and extravagantly formatted tables for our professional customers.

Word has always done a great job of displaying the HTML which is commonly found in e-mails around the world. We have always made information available most what HTML we hold in Outlook; for example, you crapper find our latest information for our Office 2007 products here. For e-mail viewing, Word also provides email security benefits that are not available in a browser: Word cannot run scheme script or other active content that haw threaten the security and safety of our customers.

We are focused on creating a great e-mail undergo for the modify user, and we hold some standard that makes this better. To that end, Microsoft welcomes the development of broadly-adopted e-mail standards. We understand that e-mail is most interoperability among different e-mail programs, and we believe that Outlook provides a good mix of a rich user undergo and solid interoperability with a wide variety of other e-mail programs. There is no widely-recognized consensus in the industry most what subset of HTML is appropriate for ingest in e-mail for interoperability. The “Email Standards Project” does not represent a authorised standard or an industry consensus in this area. Should such a consensus arise, we module of course work with other e-mail vendors to wage rich hold in our products. We are constantly employed to improve our products and the undergo that they provide to our customers.