> The discoverability is pretty much the same as the old pull-downs and toolbar approach One of the main points -- possibly the main point -- of the move to th

> The discoverability is pretty much the same as the old pull-downs and toolbar approach One of the main points -- possibly the main point -- of the move to the ribbon was to increase discoverability, and it worked. Gates said Microsoft had lots of compliments about new features in office 2007 that had actually been in the old version, but people hadn't found them. Microsoft did an enormous amount of work (and research) when developing the ribbon. Jensen Harris covered this in great depth in an 8-part series at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/tags/why+the+new+ui_3f00_/default.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/tags/why+the+new+ui_... I'm pretty sure you can find videos of him giving presentations about it as well. (I saw him present.)