"It wasn't an obviously stupid business decision, it wasn't even stupid." -and- "Prior to the ribbon design, Office was extremely hard to use" I'm afraid I'm j

"It wasn't an obviously stupid business decision, it wasn't even stupid." -and- "Prior to the ribbon design, Office was extremely hard to use" I'm afraid I'm just going to disagree with both of these. I'd buy that menus are somewhat harder to use for novices and the ribbon has some greater discoverability, though I'd like to see usability stats (edit: I did a quick search but found nothing solid), but you are missing my point - despite me repeating it multiple times! - that it was not about ribbon/menu. You just aren't getting it. Will people please stop dislocating the discussion onto what you want me to be talking about. (stuff about optimizing their product design for novice and intermediate users) That is a really good point, but it was entirely possible to support both. I wonder how. (edit: "Even though expert users will likely get pissed off that they have to relearn the interface, they will still relearn the interface" - this is exactly what you do not inflict on your customer base without exceedingly good reason)