Today's link bait award goes to Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped for: What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?

Google's Gmail is shown on the left; the imagined Microsoft version on the right. Funny -- not least because it rings true.

The general idea isn't new, e.g. check out this video (from Feb. 2006) on how Microsoft would redesign the iPod packaging. Quick summary:

Watch the whole thing (2:55):