MS takes evil to new level; ruins birthday cake

[nosh]

It turned out that she used Microsoft Outlook to send her email but Wegman’s email system failed to recognize the proprietary HTML tags of Outlook and hence this goof-up.

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[housetier]

lol 

I hope she received a refund or something like that.

[CWuestefeld]

What's proprietary about "<!--"? That's a standard HTML comment.

[fenixproductions]

What's proprietary about "<!--"? That's a standard HTML comment.

-CWuestefeld (January 28, 2009, 03:06 PM)

Maybe this is hidden message that MS bought W3C secretely

[Veign]

I think the cake is pretty cool the way it is.

[cranioscopical]

Wegman’s email system failed to recognize the proprietary HTML tags of Outlook and hence this goof-up.

I don't like to quibble, but those are HBTY tags.

[40hz]

I think the cake is pretty cool the way it is.

-Veign (January 28, 2009, 03:25 PM)

Me too.

[Ehtyar]

What's proprietary about "<!--"? That's a standard HTML comment.

-CWuestefeld (January 28, 2009, 03:06 PM)

Indeed. I'm the first to bash Microsoft when they put proprietary shit in the wrong place, but I can't see a problem here...except with the recipient's email client (please don't be using Thunderbird <repeat>).

Ehtyar.

[app103]

Some of the comments are almost as amusing as the cake:

[fenixproductions]

HTML e-mails are simply evil

[f0dder]

What's proprietary about "<!--"? That's a standard HTML comment.

-CWuestefeld (January 28, 2009, 03:06 PM)

Indeed. I'm the first to bash Microsoft when they put proprietary shit in the wrong place, but I can't see a problem here...except with the recipient's email client (please don't be using Thunderbird <repeat>).

-Ehtyar (January 28, 2009, 09:06 PM)

And what would you use instead of ThunderBird?

I kinda like the cake the way it is ^__^