It’s official, MS Office looks like The Gimp.
June 7th, 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:
Now this is, after 5 minutes of fiddling with pretty much every toolbar possible, how OpenOffice.org 3.01 looks on my Fedora 10:
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!
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.
Incidentally, which theme is that that you are using in Gnome?
icons: elementary
controls: Alphacube GTK+
windows style: cloud
wallpaper: something sober (white + sky blue + grey + a bit of red)
That’s pretty funny. There’s definitely something wrong with their design philosophy.