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That's a whild bet for the popularity of the ribbon interface. I'm not convinced it'll revolutionize the interface concept.

The ribbon is a sort of contextual, modeless docked preference page. And like it was said, belnder did it before (and plenty of others too)

Good luck to Microsoft with changing the hell out of the interface just when the 'alternatives' are turning out to be just as good as the real thing, at least for most users most of the time.

I used abiword portable more than word, and I use google spreadsheets more than I use excel. Unfortunately, I'm force into using access (which I hate with a passion) for work. But thank God I don't have to use powerpoint for squat.

Microsoft only has the corporate clients to thank for the success of office, and even there, the guys 'used to the old way of doing things' are gonna thin out and the ones who take over will ask: "$600 a pop for writing letters and adding words in columns? Are you insane? How about free?" and there you have it.