PC World's Techlog has an interesting piece about
Microsoft's impending elimination of the menubar in its products. We've talked about the new
"ribbon" toolbar in Office 12 before, but PC World's
Editor in Chief Harry McCracken has points out examples of this "de-menuing" all over Microsoft's Vista products. His main complaint, though he issues a disclaimer that Microsoft will undoubtedly be tweaking things a lot before Vista and Office 12's releases, is that it's all so inconsistent. Some apps still have conventinal menus, some have eliminated them entirely but introduce wildly different toolbar schemes, some take only half-measures to hide their menus..
