And I sincerely hope not. A complete waste of bandwidth.

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After furious head scratching, Arthur Dent asked:

| Hello all... and hopefully any Microsoft people maybe are reading
| this...
|
| Before Outlook 2007 goes final, PLEASE i hope that rendering of
| Animated GIFs will be enabled again.
| Even if i select HTML as my format for mail, it does not render them.
| And it never renders them either in incoming mail.
| This is EXTREMELY frustrating! I have people, who send me message with
| little animated pictures and smilies to make points, liven it up and
| have a little fun, and all i see is static images. The only way i
| ever see my friend's creative sides is to go to the browser, open up
| my email providers web interface, and read the messages through
| there. This is not what i want to do. If i wanted to have to read all
| my email in the web browser, then i would not have installed outlook.
| The whole point of using Outlook is to have all my email easily
| accessible in one place, instead of having to go to numerous different
| websites to check my different mail accounts (such as personal,
| business, etc.) If i wanted to check all my emails on the web, i
| wouldnt be paying the extra to have POP access to my account.
| But if outlook can't display the emails properly (animated gifs,
| background images, those are the two i've found), it kind of takes a
| major drop in its usefulness... esPECIally given how more and more
| web-emails are moving to DHTML/Ajax rich-client type functionality...
| [almost] putting themselves on par with Outlook in terms of
| usability. Unless, maybe Microsoft is deliberately TRYING to send
| outlook to a slow grave?
|
| I really hope they will fix this before sending Outlook/Office gold.
| My thoughts,
| - Arthur Dent.