Former Weblogs, Inc. blogger
Marc Orchant (now of ZDNet fame) alerted me to the fact that Microsoft is
giving a bit on the decision to make the new 2007 Office system (still a small "s") ribbon interface the only option. Microsoft is going to provide the ribbon as an
optional auto-hide feature that you can use if you want to. I must admit that I hated the ribbon at first, but then used it for a week straight and saw that Microsoft was actually right to implement the ribbon. Has anyone checked Hell lately? Are there icicles, figure-skating, grounded planes due to inclement weather (meaning SNOW), anything like that going on down there? Oh, well, guess it froze over. I never thought I would admit that I liked something new Microsoft put in place. I am still quite ticked off at Microsoft for having to resort to violent goading of users (by that I mean me) toward the light of the new way do to business in the new 2007 Office system. They could have just told me, but hey, that would have been too easy right?
[via
ZDNet]
UPDATE: Instead of the ribbon being made optional (which is inaccurate, my bad), Microsoft will include an auto-hide feature in the next technical refresh of Office 2007, which makes more sense than making it optional. The issue seems to be the screen real-estate the ribbon takes up, at least for Microsoft.
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