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by ComputerGuru 5018 days ago
It's not fully retina. Most of it is, to give credit where credit is due, but it falls short of a 10/10 stars.

The icons within the ribbon bar bar are very hit or miss. If you're on a Retina device, here are some screenshots to illustrate:

http://cl.ly/image/2R2i420N2S2o http://cl.ly/image/1k3w2O2u2D23 http://cl.ly/image/0P2U0u1p451k http://cl.ly/image/0v1u1D3d3W40

In contrast, the main toolbar looks great:

http://cl.ly/image/071q3r3l3i30

I also had the same issue as a number of other people where the app did not launch in Retina mode the first time around, and needed to touch the *.app files to make it happen.

Obviously, MS Office is a huge suite with an enormous number of resources. It's no mean feat, and just getting the basics up to retina is a great accomplishment. Personally, I'm just glad to have the editor in retina - I'd been opening Word documents in Pages for months now. Especially when you consider that some of these images probably come as-is from the Windows team and they may not even have access to them in higher resolution, I guess I can completely sympathize with the current implementation.