It’s official, MS Office looks like The Gimp.

7 06 2009

Taken from the GullFOSS blog, Andreas Mertel’s post, this is how MS Office 2008 on Mac OS X may look like, if you don’t pay enough attention:

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Now this is, after 5 minutes of fiddling with pretty much every toolbar possible, how OpenOffice.org 3.01 looks on my Fedora 10:

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To be fair, we should perhaps salute the man/years of development that have been put into both office suites first and then criticize them if we want to. But still, Andreas makes an interesting point: This is how you can render an application unusable when you work along the lines of “more is always better”.

Enjoy your Sunday!


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5 responses to “It’s official, MS Office looks like The Gimp.”

8 06 2009
Jamie (01:24:15) :

MS Office 2008 for Mac OS X is nothing short of a disaster. As both a PC and Mac user, I require compatibility between the operating systems. NeoOffice 3 for Mac (built on OpenOffice) offers greater compatibility with Office 2007 than MS Office 2008. Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot one toe at a time.

10 06 2009
Links 09/06/2009: Fedora 11 Released | Boycott Novell (03:26:36) :

[…] It’s official, MS Office looks like The Gimp. Now this is, after 5 minutes of fiddling with pretty much every toolbar possible, how OpenOffice.org 3.01 looks on my Fedora 10: […]

10 06 2009
Jack (03:42:54) :

Incidentally, which theme is that that you are using in Gnome?

10 06 2009
Charles (12:01:55) :

icons: elementary
controls: Alphacube GTK+
windows style: cloud
wallpaper: something sober (white + sky blue + grey + a bit of red)

12 06 2009
libervisco (13:36:42) :

That’s pretty funny. There’s definitely something wrong with their design philosophy.

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