In what may be one of the most successful Twitter campaigns in recent memory, more that 16,000 Twitter users have grouped together to “Twitter petition” Microsoft about their lack of web standards in Outlook 2010. The site FixOutlook has organized a movement against the Microsoft decision to use Word to render HTML emails, which will make designers’ lives a misery due to its failure to display these mails properly. They’re hoping to change Microsoft’s mind before Outlook 2010 is released… and breaks email yet again : After testing the latest beta of Outlook 2010 and seeing the same poor standards support as 2007, a senior member of the Outlook team confirmed they plan on continuing to use Word to render HTML

emails. Not only that, but early tests indicate that HTML support in the Word engine has not been improved in any way. Same bugs. Same quirks. To demonstrate just how bad the Word rendering engine is in Outlook 2010, here’s exactly the same email rendered in Outlook 2000, and then Outlook 2010 [below]. The cause is helped significantly by the supremely well-designed FixOutlook site, which makes retweeting the message a breeze. Could the Twitter movement actually push Microsoft to reconsider? With 20,000+ Twitter participants likely by the end of today, it would seem a tough movement to ignore. Reviews: Twitter Tags: twitter

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@msofficeus: 16,000+ Twitter Users Want You to Fix Outlook 2010. Pls Listen.