Despite Microsoft’s claims to be coming more accepting of open source, this progression in their thinking has yet to reach the designers of their MS-Office software, a competitor to OpenOffice.org. This screenshot clearly shows the ‘Warning: Open source’ message repeated multiple times as a user goes to press the ‘Open Source’ button.

So, despite the encouraging PR messages from on high, it appears that as of today, April 1st 2009, FUD is still alive and well in Microsoft’s thinking.

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