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Outlooks Broken - Lets Fix it! Fix Outlook

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Microsoft have just confirmed they plan on using the crippled Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010.

This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position and no background images. Not to mention the long list of bugs and quirks that break the simplest of layouts.

Outlook 2010 is still in beta and Microsoft have confirmed they want to hear your feedback on this decision. It’s time for the email marketing and design community to rally together and encourage Microsoft to embrace web standards before it’s too late.

What’s the best way to do that? Twitter of course.

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Tags: fixoutlook, Microsoft, outlook, word
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Corel Wins Award of Excellence from Society for Technical Communication

Monday, June 1st, 2009

CorelDRAW

Corel Corporation announced that its documentation team has been recognized with an Award of Excellence from the Society for Technical Communication (STC).

“The CorelDRAW Handbook: Insights from the Experts” won top honors in the International Technical Publications competition receiving praise for its appealing and inviting design, as well as its effectiveness in strengthening readers’ connection to the product. (more…)

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Microsoft Bing - the successful search to challenge Google?

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

The new Microsoft search engine - Bing - localised for the UK

The software giant Microsoft has announced that it is relaunching its internet search engine with a new name and a new look, in a bid to take on Google.

The new Microsoft search engine, called Bing, goes live in stages between Friday and June 3. It will, Microsoft claims, offer users a more refined search experience capable of satisfying queries more quickly than any rival search engine.

At launch, the new service will have a strong American bias, with a UK version “soft-launching” as a Beta test version. A 60-strong London-based team will work on improving the localisation of search results for the UK, with a view to a full launch in around six months.
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Tags: BING, google, Microsoft, search engine
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