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The UI/UX could also be licensed, so you were allowed to use it. I can't remember what they called it, but I do remember a few years ago my job at the time we h

by iamtew 11y ago

The UI/UX could also be licensed, so you were allowed to use it. I can't remember what they called it, but I do remember a few years ago my job at the time we had a big .NET application that was using the same design, and we had a license to use it all.

yuhong 11y ago
Yea, and that license had restrictions, as mentioned in the complaint.
huac 11y ago
I think the relevant portion is a non-compete with MS Office products. further info about license: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/the-evil-of-the-office-ui-ribbon-license http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/the-evil-of-the-office-ui-ribb... original license and requirements (now dead): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20120317065353/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120317065353/http://msdn.micro... apparently the non-compete is removed now: https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q559500 https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q...
spyder 11y ago
It's called "ribbon" UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29 And from the bottom of the wiki page: "The Microsoft Ribbon Licensing Page has been retired, therefore it is no longer possible to license the ribbon control from Microsoft."
- dogma1138 11y ago
  There are quite a few vendors like Telerik that would sell your ribbon controls for .NET/WPF/Native/Web applications. http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/ribbonbar/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/ribbonbar/examples/over... Telerik is quite huge in the .NET world but they also could've licensed it from MSFT for resell.
- nailer 11y ago
  Going to be picky here and clarify that Microsoft - and the small niche of people who run wikipedia - want people to call it ribbon. But anyone who's used major software from Lotus or KDE knows that tabbed toolbars are tabbed toolbars and Microsoft didn't invent them in 2007.
  - tamana 11y ago
    MS also had tabbed toolbars before they built their ribbon format.
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by iamtew 11y ago

yuhong 11y ago

Yea, and that license had restrictions, as mentioned in the complaint.

huac 11y ago

I think the relevant portion is a non-compete with MS Office products. further info about license: http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/the-evil-of-the-office-ui-ribbon-license http://weblogs.asp.net/fbouma/the-evil-of-the-office-ui-ribb... original license and requirements (now dead): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20120317065353/http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/aa973809.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120317065353/http://msdn.micro... apparently the non-compete is removed now: https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q559500 https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/Q...

spyder 11y ago

It's called "ribbon" UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29 And from the bottom of the wiki page: "The Microsoft Ribbon Licensing Page has been retired, therefore it is no longer possible to license the ribbon control from Microsoft."

dogma1138 11y ago
There are quite a few vendors like Telerik that would sell your ribbon controls for .NET/WPF/Native/Web applications. http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/ribbonbar/examples/overview/defaultcs.aspx http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/ribbonbar/examples/over... Telerik is quite huge in the .NET world but they also could've licensed it from MSFT for resell.
nailer 11y ago
Going to be picky here and clarify that Microsoft - and the small niche of people who run wikipedia - want people to call it ribbon. But anyone who's used major software from Lotus or KDE knows that tabbed toolbars are tabbed toolbars and Microsoft didn't invent them in 2007.
- tamana 11y ago
  MS also had tabbed toolbars before they built their ribbon format.
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