As many of you have noticed in the trendic topics today Outlook 2010 is the number one trended topic. It begs to question why so many people would get excited about a beta version of a Microsoft office application. Yes geeks like me have had a hissy fit about the functionality of Oulook 2010’s rendering engine, but surely that cant make it a trending topic or can it?

Just when you think the powers above cannot make our lives harder they kick you right in the balls and today that came in the form of Microsoft announcing that Outlook 2010 intends to continue to use the antediluvian Microsoft Word rendering engine that it uses in Outlook 2007.

Sending a webpage as an email is not something that you would do everyday, but there are times when you might want to send a web page as an HTML email rather than an attachment. Outlook 2003 / 2007 facilitates this through it’s Web toolbar.

From a purely technical point of view, HTML based emails can be a nightmare to get right. I have had experience of this recently when I was given the task of designing an HTML email that was to be sent to students within the university.