Email Attachments!! Why can't Apple handle emails that 90% of the WORLD CAN

Why is it that Apple systems have such a difficult time with decoding email attachments sent from PC systems? This has been going on for YEARS. I cannot tell you the number of times I get calls from poor Apple users who say they didn't get my attachment but they got a Mime or winmail.dat file instead. If the vast majority of computer users in this world are on PC's, you would think that Apple might figure out how to decode attacments from PC's.....NO???
What is the problem here? Anyone else frustrated with this crap?

It's not the senders e-mail program ...
it's most likely their ISP's mail server software.
Oh yes this is caused entirely and exclusively by the sender's email client - in this case Winblows Outlook and the oh so wonderful and secure Microslop Exchange Server.
This is an Outlook bug or an intended "feature" that Microslop has known about for a very long time but has chosen not to do fix or do anything about - just like all the other poorly written Microslop software garbage.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNEF
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/TNEF.html
The sender of the message must use HTML or Plain Text for message composition (preferably Plain Text) and not RTF when the sender uses Outlook as their email client.
If everyone used Plain Text for message composition, the majority if not all problems experienced with the exchange of email would be eliminated.
Microslop also wrought HTML for message composition upon the internet which came back to haunt Winblows users in a big way and still does to this day.
http://www.birdhouse.org/etc/evilmail.html
http://www.georgedillon.com/web/htmlemail_isevil.shtml

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