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Outlook 2007 change sends HTML email back to the future, for better and worse

By Jeremy Reimer | Published: January 15, 2007 – 10:53AM CT

A major change to the way Outlook 2007 renders email has created quite a stir online, and Microsoft’s plans have largely been met with derision and critique.

The change, which is explained in detail on Microsoft’s site, involved decoupling Outlook 2007 from Internet Explorer’s HTML rendering engine. Instead, Outlook will use Word 2007’s HTML viewer, which is an incomplete rendering engine missing a few features previously supported by the IE engine. The end result is that e-mails that use certain advanced HTML and CSS features will be somewhat degraded in appearance in Outlook 2007, yet they will look fine in earlier versions of Outlook. One benefit is that this will make Outlook email more secure by making it impossible to hook potential IE exploits via email. Dud, or stud?

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MySpace sues email marketer for ’spam’ messages

Sourced from nzherald.co.nz

News Corp’s MySpace said today it has sued an email marketing executive for an unspecified amount of damages, saying he and his company were behind millions of junk email, or spam, messages sent to its customers’ accounts.

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Microsoft ‘tried to doctor Wikipedia’

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Hefty fine for spammer who sent 75m emails

Sourced from smh.com.au

A Perth-based company has been fined $5.5 million for sending millions of unsolicited emails, with a judge labelling the spam annoying, costly to combat, and a threat to the internet.

It is the first time an Australian company has been fined under the the federal government’s spam laws, introduced in April 2004.

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Saucy email spreads like wildfire

Sourced From smh.com.au

A salacious email inviting a female lawyer to no-strings sex has spread like wildfire to countless inboxes worldwide.

The email was penned by law clerk Craig Dale, and sent last week to female lawyer Azadeh Bashari.

They work for separate law firms in New Zealand and it is unclear how they met.

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Steve Irwin’s death clogs Web sites

SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) — In death as in life, iconic TV naturalist Steve Irwin captivated millions worldwide and clogged the Internet as fans from Guam to Glasgow reacted with disbelief to news “The Crocodile Hunter” was dead.Some Web sites groaned to a halt within hours of the first reports Monday that Irwin had been killed by a stingray’s barb through his chest in a freak diving accident off Australia’s northeast coast.

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Telecom set to dump MSN as Xtra partner

Sourced from stuff.co.nz

Telecom today confirmed it is tendering out its partnership with its internet service Xtra, currently run with Microsoft’s MSN. Media reports indicate MSN is likely to be replaced by Yahoo in a deal that could be tied to the sale of Telecom’s directories unit.

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