Campaign Monitor has an article that further discusses the new (old way) of displaying HTML emails in Outlook 2007, and highlights how Microsoft is taking HTML email design back about 5 years. Some of the highlights include, no background images, poor background color support, no support for float or position and horrible box model support. Be sure to check out the screenshots from their own newsletter. This is a big step backward and it’s sad to see Microsoft force this change on consumers under the guise of security.

Microsoft takes email design back 5 years