Microsoft Office for Mac OSX was coded with the same evil spirit.
This behavior is unethical but pervasive, and should be outlawed somehow, it hurts everyone. Specially when it comes from the two biggest players in the market.
Disclosure: I work for Microsoft, though this experience was at a previous employer.
Microsoft Outlook for Mac (the newer "blue" one, v15.3) is actually my favorite mail client on the mac. It's basically exactly what I wanted -- I wish there was a Windows version of the Mac Outlook :)
Sometimes Words starts typing multiple lines and Excel freezes when copy pasting filtered cells. I've learned to work around these bugs, (having been there for over a year). Maybe Office for Mac is not be coded by the devil, but lacks features and is unsatisfactory in ways that make me consider turning on the PC
I'm sure they get no support from corporate IT, their company's marketing constantly makes fun of their chosen field of expertise, and they probably even have their own table in the cafeteria. :(