Microsoft Office Outlook Team Blog : The Power of Word in Outlook

A) This is a straw man argument, completely ignoring the HTML rendering problems of Outlook. Instead of addressing the issue, they're talking about how great Word is at composing email for Outlook. Peddling me another one of your products to make up for deficiencies in one of your products? GTFO.

We don't care how good Word is at creating email in Outlook.

This is like Sony a few years ago (and maybe still, I've avoided their products for some time now) telling me its proprietary memory sticks work great in their cameras. So what? It doesn't change the fact that nothing else fits.

B) They then attempt (and fail at) killing the messenger with a personal attack, still ignoring the argument: "The “Email Standards Project” does not represent a sanctioned standard or an industry consensus in this area. Should such a consensus arise, we will of course work with other e-mail vendors to provide rich support in our products. We are constantly working to improve our products and the experience that they give to our customers." WTF? This is like saying, "Yes our product sucks at the thing it's should be the most proficient at, but not officially, so we'll just carry on."

And even this logical fallacy is a joke: MSOFT has a history of thumbing its nose at standards that were not created by, for and centered it's existing products and hurting the industry in the process. [Insert venomous IE-bashing here.] It's obviously not going to change anytime soon.