Reliable solution for conditional comments in Outlook.com HTML emails

Question

I\'ve seen here and elsewhere that a recommended way to set up conditional comments to work with Outlook.com, but because of another known issue detailed below I\'m getting

Answer 1

Those sites that say you can do that are wrong. Outlook.com eats your conditional comments, and anything inside of them. Gave me quite a headache for a while.

For things where you need to use conditional comments, I found the best thing to do was to have the regular conditional comment section, but also include another table row / column or what have you with a class like class="outlookcom" (on the td) and hide it with display:none. Then, in your