Campaign Monitor has a good post about the the new Outlook 2007 rendering engine, Microsoft Word. For some reason Microsoft has made this move and once again it’s a slap in the face to the tech saavy people who work with their products. It’s unbelievable they haven’t figured out the connection between the geeks and the public. I know my anti-Microsoft sentiment over the past few years over web-standards has not gone unnoticed by those within earshot.

How does that work? I grumble and complain, I tell folks some of the horror stories of Microsoft and how they’ve gotten too arrogant to adhere to the “hey let’s get on the same page” policies of the little guy. In doing so I have switched tons of people to Firefox. I remember when people would get joked on for using AOL as their web browser, the beginning of the end for AOL. I’m pushing that same concept amongst friends, oh you still use IE? And it’s pop-up blocker? And it’s anti-spam-phishing-spyware bundled package with activeX? It looks like we will see more gmail and thunderbird users out there. I hadn’t had any qualms about Outlook until now. Microsoft, stop pissing off the influencers!