Who here wants $250K?

[Epidemic]

perhaps I am old school but I hate the ribbon. I knew where thing were in the menus. I guess my main gripe was the elimination of realestate devoted to the ribbon and the fact that they completely eliminated the menu rather than allowing for you to choose one or the other method.

Allow me as the user to decide the most productive way.

[dchw_dude]

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Originally Posted by Epidemic

Allow me as the user to decide the most productive way.

While I can sympathize(My hate for Office 2007 burns as hot as a thousand suns), i would like to offer the developers' viewpoint.

To a developer, the idea of allowing the user MORE customization does not necessarily work. The more options you give a user the more they can break the application. Nothing drives users away faster than a broken app.

Although I do a lot of programming and can deal with lots of config options, like most users, I sometimes want it to just work so I can get done faster. How do things just work? When you have less options - this is the philosophy Apple takes, and this is why the masses can pick up on their products fairly quickly. I see MS as trying to walk the fence between total customization and total usability to appease their large market base.

So to bring this tangent full circle, give away the $250,000, M$. This is probably the fastest way to kill conficker - look at how fast Linux grows! Power of the motivated crowd. This essentially frees the patch/fix for the worm from the M$ beaurocracy. Just make it useable .

[GroundZero3]

Hey EP! If your biggest gripe is the ribbon

MS Office Tip: How to Turn off the Ribbon in Office 2007