>>Although I hate the ribbon, it's actually better than menus - only if you don't have old habits to unlearn. Getting used to is one trouble, getting unused to is two (somehow can't make it sound as good as "navika je muka jedna, a odvika dve").
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>A semantic filtering of options given on a large screen / even a grid might be the smarter interface - even before Siri.
>But MS and smart filtered result sets are somewhat oxymoronic

MS and smart... may be right for some users, not me. In about 90% of the cases, when they add a feature of this kind - to hide something - they set the default exactly opposite from what I need. Starting with windows explorer, when they started hiding file extensions... nowadays, no matter which flavor of Windows it is that I install, it takes about 20 minutes to flip everything the way I want it. And that's if it's a version I know. If it's a new one, make that hours or days - just finding all the switches takes that long.