So I been having some issues working on our Newsletter that is sent out via an online email "blasting" software.

Every month we send one out of Direct Dimensions, sometimes more than one a month. Since the release of Outlook 2007, we have had to create a 2nd version of the email using tables that is compliant with Outlook's broken Word rendering engine.

Yes, you heard me correctly, Word is the rendering engine for Outlook 2007 to render ALL emails (HTML, rich-text, plain text).
What does this mean for me? Well it means that I have to grab a DeLorean, travel back to say 2002, and then create my emails entirely using tables!!! Yay!

After looking into this, I found an online Twitter petition that has gotten Microsoft's attention. Sadly, the Outlook 2010 guy basically said "...thanks, but we don't believe in your 'web standards,' we are going to continue using Word..."

In the comments I found this one that made my day:

"'[click here to] Read this issue online if you can’t see the images or are using Outlook 2007.'
- Quoted from the official Microsoft Xbox newsletter.
Even your companies own marketing teams cant send out appealing newsletters using the tools you are providing."

Thanks Tim Dawson. You hit the nail on the head!

Oh Microsoft...