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Microsoft Unveils Refreshed Office 2007 UI

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Mar 2006 23:28 UTC, submitted by Jane Walker

At CeBIT today, Microsoft unveiled an updated version of their 'ribbon' user interface, used in Office 2007. They even set up a special page for it. Jensen Harris of Microsoft explains more about it on his blog. On a related note, this article goes a little deeper into the OpenOffice.org vs. MS Office debate.

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Absolute Doo Doo

by Quoth_the_Raven on Thu 9th Mar 2006 23:53 UTC

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2005-11-15

Well, it certainly doesn't look any less cluttered to me. On top of that, it's bound to be extremely confusing to those used to the current UI. Way to go MS. When are you folks going to hire a decent design team?

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RE: Absolute Doo Doo

by hyper on Fri 10th Mar 2006 09:14 in reply to "Absolute Doo Doo"

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2005-06-29

don't use it if you don't like it. meh...

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RE: Absolute Doo Doo

by matthew_i on Fri 10th Mar 2006 10:09 in reply to "Absolute Doo Doo"

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2005-07-14

Get off their backs. They are trying to innovate. Go use your [insert favorite DE here] and waste your time with comment's like this in [insert competing DE's IRC channel here].

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