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From: mike 


Microsoft Office's ribbon-like interface looks and sounds like something out of
a focus group....

"...which do you like better, this cool, new ribbon interface; or a dorky, old
DOS command line prompt..."?



 /m


On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:14:47 -0500, "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote:

>For my part I like the comfort of a hierarchical menu structure. Hopefully the
Microsoft guidelines for 3rd party apps using contextual tabs and such  ( I
don't know how explicit the MS guidelines are ) will be sufficient so that I
don't need a Rosetta Stone to decipher the interface.
>
>
>"Rich"  wrote in message news:45931670$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>     The ribbon is a great improvement for discoverability and ease of access
of features.  I don't think that is the issue with the apps we have been
discussing.  For them removing or hiding menus is for simplicity.  The features
people commonly use are accessed by other means.
>
>  Rich
>
>    "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:45930f31{at}w3.nls.net...
>    Since Microsoft wishes to freely license and actively promote  their
ribbon paradigm to all applications that don't compete with Office it seems to
me that Microsoft is attempting to change the toolbar/menu for applications
which is part of this discussion 
>      "Rich"  wrote in message news:45930444$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>         This discussion has nothing to do with the ribbon as we are not
discussing Office.
>
>      Rich

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