MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon (1 of 10)

[garygnu01]

How does the Ribbon solve the "real people question" that is mentioned: I'm sure there's a way to do this but I can't figure out how. With the Ribbon now you'll never know how to figure it out :)

[garygnu01]

I've used Office for 20+ years and the ribbon for over a year. Verdict = ribbon sucks.

[BenDoverPls]

Bloat was not a problem of the toolbars and menues and features. The bloat that most people were complaining about was the size of the installation on the hard drive. Give us the features, but optimize the code to be as efficient and small as possible. We were being required to buy larger hard drives, more RAM, and faster processors.

[aarkerio]

All suites are lame, Latex is the way!!

[Tome4kkkk]

I was so much pro-OpenOffice. Until I tried to write something in it with a single landscape page and some tables. Over time I learned that OOo is 10 years behind MSO and even more behind the MSO 2007 or 2010. The cumbersomeness of OOo (not only UI, rather workflow in general) is just epic! People ask a trivial question on the OOo forums and topic goes 3 pages or more!

[packoftwenty]

Notice how the DOUCHEBAG Jensen Harris tries to make a joke out of Microsoft's other major cock-up - 'Intellimenus'... "we could hide some of it from you"... Assholes. And this crap was allowed to get through to the actual released program! What idiots!

People remember SPATIALLY where menu items are.

He's talking about this massive MISTAKE as if it's no big deal that a multi-billion dollar company screwed up so badly.

[packoftwenty]

So Jensen Harris is the DOUCHEBAG who came up with the pile of shite that is 'the Ribbon'...

"How and why did it happen?"

It happened because a bunch of DOUCHEBAGS whose JOBS depended on coming up with something NEW decided to ruin the user interface. Assholes.

[Rymac91]

If you guys hate the ribbon so much because you can't customize it or you want the old style back, then get the RibbonCustomizer add-on.

[NellyzBM12]

DUH DUNNNNN!!!!! The Task PAIN(Pane) IN MY ASS

[repoulin]

I am not too fond of it. I like the visual layout, however it removes the basic visual interface we are use to.

[anarchyfortheusa]

Jensen Harris, If you're responsible for the ribbon I hope you get anal cancer.

[JohnFredC]

Give me back my custom toolbars!

[KawazoeJapan]

Just learn how XML work, edit the main template and add custom categories.......

[JohnFredC]

Of course I already know this. It's inconvenient and excludes the non-programmer whose only purpose is productivity with the Office tools.

[KawazoeJapan]

Yea that's true. But it's not that hard anyway and if the quick-access toolbar just don't do it for you, you might seriously want to learn how to to it ;-)

[NAHABI4]

Office 2007 just wonderful !!

I had cultural shock first time launched it. (in good sence)

[ForTehHellOfIt]

MS Word is nonsense...

LaTeX rules!

[kozmic0]

Hehe, even Microsoft diss the Clippy, that's funny :)

[wdr1]

Honestly, I found the ribbon confusing & a step backwards. It made doing the things I knew how to do irrelevant and set me back to ground zero for almost all tasks. All without any benefit to me, the user.

[barophobia]

Yes, it was annoying and frustrating to learn where things were but I like it much better. It was definitely an improvement.

[simonx4]

Because this is so mind-blowingly stupid.

[LookhaLikeAMan]

Why are there no comments?