Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Apr 2009 09:36 UTC, submitted by davidiwharper
Windows Vista wasn't exactly a success, and as such, Microsoft needed different people to manage the development of Windows 7. One of those new people is Julie Larson-Green, who made a very good showing with Microsoft Office 2007, which took the bold move of replacing the menu-driven interface with the newly designed Ribbon interface. The Sydney Morning Herald (awesome name) decided to take a look at who, exactly, Larson-Green is.
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2008-07-15
Well coming from the perspective of a keyboard user... I fscking hate that ribbon! Try navigating that thing with the keyboard for a bit. That, plus the fact that some options change location depending on what I'm doing... that's not intuitive.
Fortunately I've been able to move completely to Openoffice, so I don't have to deal with MS Office's cludgy interface. From Word 97 onwards I've always felt that Office was trying to do too much--changing the menus based on your usage, auto-correcting things I did not want corrected... and now the freaking ribbon makes it even harder for me to work with it.
No thanks, Microsoft. Go back to the drawing board on that one.