But it's still at the top. And it's really just a combination of the menu and toolbars. And while things aren't where you used to find them, it's opened up exploration of the product and made it easier to find everything that's there. Microsoft claims that 80% of new feature requests were for things already in the product. That means the old-style menu/toolbar combination didn't work.

I really like the ribbon. Once I got used to it, I found it much easier to use.


>Hmmm, Office 2005 (2007 and now 2010) changed the entire UI from the traditional menu to the ribbon. Generally people did not like it as they could not find functions that they used to do. I still have problems finding some things. Now a lot of applications are trying to mimic the same ribbon type interface. So from what you said above, M$ should not have changed the UI but they did and the sales keep going...