Outlook 2007 Problems
Officially, Outlook 2007 does not support animated Gifs and will only render the first frame of the image. Microsoft talks more about the problem in this article. If the countdown timer is not showing at all and in its place is a white square with a red X in it then you need to "Download photos". Here are the steps:
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