view pictures in outlook

[Guest]

I understand that outlook is more designed for business, BUT, the option
should really be there for the user to have there pics automatically show up
in an email.
There is nothing worse in right click- open or double click to open to view
say 12 pictures of family n friends ... I do hope this issue canbe resolved
so that the people who like Outlook can have it set up the way they like it.

Regards

Bill

 

[Vanguard]

I understand that outlook is more designed for business, BUT, the
option
should really be there for the user to have there pics automatically
show up
in an email.
There is nothing worse in right click- open or double click to open
to view
say 12 pictures of family n friends ... I do hope this issue canbe
resolved
so that the people who like Outlook can have it set up the way they
like it.

It more of Outlook being more secure than Outlook Express or an e-mail
client that automatically displays pictures. Pictures can present a
vector through an e-mail client to make use of defects in the graphics
engine back in the OS.

I believe I saw someone mention that this "feature" is now an option
in Outlook 2007, so you'll have to decide if you want to destabilize
your computer with betaware or find a different e-mail program more to
your liking.

 

[Guest]

Fair comment,
But the problem being for me is this...
I purchased this whole office programe outright
and it is not cheap, so i figure that if i like the program then why should
it not have all the features that the everyday person can use, and not just
the business person.
I like the features in it a lot,and have it set up how i like it, so why
shouldnt it have the ability to do the other things that Outlook Express can
do.
Its like driving a car and being told you can use the first 3 gears but only
racing drivers can use 4th...

 

[Brian Tillman]

Its like driving a car and being told you can use the first 3 gears
but only racing drivers can use 4th...

No, it's like buying a car with a three speed transmission and expecting it
to have a fourth just because the card next to you has one. The people who
authored Outlook and the people who authored Outlook Express are not the
same people and the design to which they worked was not a common design.
Each team had its own goals. Showing images in the preview pane was a goal
for the OE authors. Showing images in the Reading Pane was not a goal for
the Outlook authors.

 

[Vanguard]

Fair comment,
But the problem being for me is this...
I purchased this whole office programe outright
and it is not cheap, so i figure that if i like the program then why
should
it not have all the features that the everyday person can use, and
not just
the business person.
I like the features in it a lot,and have it set up how i like it,
so why
shouldnt it have the ability to do the other things that Outlook
Express can
do.
Its like driving a car and being told you can use the first 3 gears
but only
racing drivers can use 4th...

There will always be limitations in all software simply because it is
impossible to include every possible or conceivable feature or
function if merely because there isn't enough disk space on the entire
planet to account for that code. A program's author has their design
goals, not everyone's goals. For commercial products that rely on
revenue, or for responsive authors or coding communities, user demands
may filter into later versions of a product. That's why I mention
that your wanted feature might be in a future version. What you don't
realize is that Outlook was designed to be a PIM (personal information
manager), conceived to be a competitor to products like Act, and
e-mail was added as a convenient communications channel (they could've
gone with using some prattle client instead of e-mail). It was e-mail
that became the killer function in Outlook by which you and many
non-corporate users came to discover but is not the community for
which that product evolved to support. Although a Chevy Silverado
will get you around and perhaps suits your needs as a utility vehicle,
don't expect it to perform like a Ferrari Enzo, and don't expect
either vehicle to evolve to supplant the other. They have some
similarities by very different goals.

There is the possibility that someone has written a plug-in for
Outlook to let you see the pretty pictures but it will probably cost
you. Somehow I don't think it is the occasional family e-mails with
pictures that has you complaining about a couple of mouse clicks on a
few e-mails that arrive sporadically. If your senders embedded the
pictures (as disposition=inline attachments by pasting them into the
body) then you would see the pics. Instead they are adding them as
disposition=attach attachments so e-mail clients will handle them as
something that is separate of the body. Tell your senders to change
how they include their pictures.