The Email Standards Project is working hard to persuade email client developers to adhere to HTML web standards so that email has a better chance of appearing as it was designed to across the majority of email programs. It’s a very noble effort.
Recently, thousands of people joined the dedicated team at the Email Standards Project to send a message to Microsoft, who is going back in time with plans to use MS Word as the rendering standard for Outlook 2010 – even though that is sooo 1989.
They did receive a response from Microsoft, who said that they appreicate the concern and that, well, yea – the check is in the mail. Actually they said “The mosaic is hangning in our hallway.”
Because this sort of carry on can get a bit confusing, I thought I’d create a little comic strip to explain what’s going on.
* To see this and other comic strips by The Messaging Times, just click the strip!
