>Alex,
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>This is another example of not knowing the reasoning. 80% of the enhancement requests received by the Office teams were already in the products. They needed a better way of discoverability. Obviously people couldn't find the functionality from the menus. The ribbon makes it easy to find things.
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>And, people better get used to the ribbon. It's finding its way to other applications. NotePad, WordPad, and Paint in Windows 7 have the ribbon.
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Well I don't see any improvement in the ribbon and just because MS puts it into their other apps does NOT make it good
Same with vista. But customer resistance keeps XP alive!