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

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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