>I'm still not convinced that Win8 is the way to go, but I see no evidence of MS not listening to the "community" when it comes to the ribbon in office. 80% of new feature requests for Office were for things already in the products. The problem was that people couldn't find them using menus.

So they completly changed the interface so nobody could find anything. Of course, they had to change the names and groupings of commands too in order to make the sweep complete.

>A different way of exposing that functionality was needed. I consider myself to be a power user of PowerPoint and intermediate to advanced in Word and using the ribbon, I've found lots of things that existed in earlier versions.

Most people found new stuff while searching for commands they've used for years. Lots of those commands still haven't been found.

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>>I don’t thing MS was any intention of listening to the community (they didn’t with vista or the office ribbon). They will lose their army of evangalists and shrills to attempt to Jedi mind trick the community into thinking windows 8 is just what we need. And when the of evangalists and shrills fail they will fall back to the old MS standby and force everyone into it by not selling win7 license.