Microsoft has acknowledged a difficulty the place Outlook on Windows will cease responding or crash once you view Uber receipt emails. The difficulty began lately in what Microsoft calls the Current Channel Version of Outlook that’s accessible for Microsoft 365 subscribers. Microsoft is growing a repair, however it gained’t be accessible till Patch Tuesday on August ninth.

In a support note, spotted by BleepingComputer, Microsoft explains that opening, replying to, or forwarding an Uber receipt e-mail will trigger this difficulty. Uber makes use of “complex tables” in its emails, and it seems that Microsoft Word, which Outlook makes use of to view emails, is struggling to render these tables.

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“The Word Team has implemented a fix that will be released to the Beta channel shortly for fix verification,” explains Microsoft. “We currently estimate the fix to go out to production Current Channel on Patch Tuesday August 9th, 2022.”

IT admins can use a workaround to repair the difficulty, reverting to a earlier construct of Office that works superb with Uber emails. That suggests the difficulty was launched by an Office replace reasonably than a change in Uber emails. Either approach, the issue needs to be rectified subsequent Tuesday.