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:

OOocluttered

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!

5 thoughts on “It’s official, MS Office looks like The Gimp.

  1. 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.

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

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