> Only a monopoly like Microsoft could get away with that.
What's the problem there? Unless Microsoft forces you to buy a separate Word license to use their email product, who cares if they reuse some of their own code?
Because they are a monopoly, they get to ignore the HTML standards and set the defacto standard which is the subpar rendering of Word as an HTML browser.
If real competition existed senders would send modern HTML mail using CSS and Outlook would not be able to render half of it. But instead developers have to write email to the antique standards used by Word, with layout using tables and without css.
And Microsoft doesn’t care, they get away because Outlook is the monopoly.
If real competition existed senders would send modern HTML mail using CSS and Outlook would not be able to render half of it. But instead developers have to write email to the antique standards used by Word, with layout using tables and without css.
And Microsoft doesn’t care, they get away because Outlook is the monopoly.