So I recently wrote this short piece concerning the new fugliness of Office 2013.  Subsequently I’ve been thinking there might be a way to enable Aero and return the windows from the Office Suite back into, you know, normal windows.  In my search I have come across some great gems as others vent their spleens over the fugly-nature of Microsoft’s newest Office faux pas.

Here are two of my favorites from this post:

You start Windows 8…and see all the crazy colors. Wow…there are colors EVERYWHERE….it’s like Teletubbies land. Then, you launch the Excel 2013 app…and all the life is instantly sucked right out of Windows 8. You can feel it in your bones. The Office apps are a barren, Boot Hill-esque, cold wasteland….with grey and white tumbleweeds and gravestones. Then, you go back into Metro…and WHAM…it’s the Skittles rainbow monster voraciously attacking everything in sight. Nom nom nom nom. Big blocks of color coming at you….it’s crazy like…wow man…what a Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas trip crazy! You are flying sky high with the bats and stingrays. Life is groovy. You then launch Outlook 2013 and WHAM…there you are…slammed down to the ground…back in Frankenweenie land ready to raise some dead animals or something.

And…

Please…PLEASE…someone tell me there is a way to change the Office 2013 RTM themes beyond just a grey-scale look. All I can see is “White”, “Light Grey”, and “Dark Grey”…which is equivalent to “Stormtrooper White”, Stormtrooper Light Grey”, and “Stormtrooper Dark Grey”. Did the Adams Family design the Office 2013…because everything looks like a flat-styled death theme compared to Office 2010. I’m quite literally getting eye-strain from it. I can see a headache coming on if I try to use this all day.

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