Microsoft and Google Instant Messaging Icons

I went to Microsoft Office Update to get the latest patches for office and was surprised to see that the icons in Outlook for instant messaging have changed. They now look amazingly similar to the presence icons in Google Talk. Is it just me or does anyone else think this is really odd? In fact, the resemblance is so great that for a minute, I thought that Google had installed an add-in into my copy of Outlook that I had't noticed before.