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.