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Ribbons

Office 2007 is not a PDA or a website. So why the Home tab?

It appears that the ribbon collects all of the menus, contextual popups and floating pallets that existed in previous versions of Office. Great. But this is missing the point.

Fiddling about with the Office user interface in this way is not merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. It’s bringing more deck chairs out from storage, then rearranging them too. The Welcome to the New Office User Interface document (Zipped PDF) proves this.

Jensen Harris’ Office User Interface blog makes an interesting read.

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