Re: Outlook 2007: one step forward, two steps back?

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

rms () computerbytesman com wrote:

> Is anyone else on the list using Outlook 2007?  Are you seeing more problems
> with it vs. Outlook 2003?
>
> The reason I'm asking is because the new Outlook 2007 HTML editor is giving
> me grief.  The latest problem is that Outlook 2007 crashed when I tried to
> convert an email messaging I was composing from HTML to plain text.  The
> editor also messes up the formatting of some Web pages when pasting them
> into an new email message.  I see the problem a lot at the Boston Globe Web
> site (www.boston.com).
>
> Also some old bugs weren't fixed.  For example, Outlook 2007 editor still
> does not handle Web pages with frames.  It also messes up the formatting of
> plain text Web pages when emailing them from Internet Explorer.

I gather you missed all the brouhaha about OL2k7 moving to using Word 
(exclusively?) for its HTML handling?

Much as I dislike IE and the machinations they had to perform to make 
it vaguely "safe" to use as the HTML wrangler for a MUA, obviously 
moving to Word is a seriously retrograde step for all manner of 
security and usability reasons...

Of course, your question suggests you care, so that begs the question 
of why _ANYONE_ with half a concern for security and usability issues 
would ever choose to use OL for their MUA in the first place.


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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