Brandon is not exception. I hate them too. I know a lot of people who say that with every new version MS does more harm to peoples' work flow than any other company.
>You're an exception. The ribbon has greatly improved feature discovery. It takes many data points and many types of users to determine if a Ux change is useful.
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>The history behind the ribbon is that 80% of new feature requests were for things already in the product. That told MS (and me) that menus and toolbars were failures.
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>>MS may spend more on Ux than any other company but they fail miserably. I still LOATHE the ribbon interface in Office. This many years later and I still can't remember where various features are... especially in Excel.
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