From: "Geo." 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:4592de88$1{at}w3.nls.net...

>>The guidelines will require a license agreement, though it is royalty
>>free. Any application, even ones not running on Windows will be able to
>>use the ribbon paradigm without fear of IP lawsuits. The exception is
>>applications that directly compete with the core Office products, namely
>>Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access.<<

ROFL, oh my god, the whole reason for force feeding users a new UI is so
they can keep the competition from using the "new and improved"
UI..

Oh yeah, this is something users have demanded.

Geo.

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