[troymc]

This reminds me of Microsoft's Office Suite. It seems the current colors are:

Access - Red

Excel - Green

OneNote - Purple

Outlook - Blue

Publisher - Teal

PowerPoint - Orange

Word - Navy Blue

New headline suggestion: "Apple Copies Microsoft Design Ideas"? Just kidding! Associating a color with each product in your lineup is an old practice.

[Maarten88]

Clearly Microsoft has started this trend toward flat design and away from skeuomorphic design. Mcrosoft calls this authenticly digital" in their talks and documentation on the metro design language [1].

It's funny that blogs and articles about this upcoming change never even mention Microsoft or Metro. Apple copying Microsoft creates cognitive dissonance [2], it is counter to the strong belief that Apple is the industry leader in design.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh78123...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance