It goes beyond habits. I know what Office was capable of many years ago. Many of those features became completely hidden by the ribbon. Once I managed to find t

It goes beyond habits. I know what Office was capable of many years ago. Many of those features became completely hidden by the ribbon. Once I managed to find them again, I would be looking at the unchanged dialog boxes from Office 97 inside the pretty Ribbon interface. Let me put it this way - I am qualified to write a book about Microsoft Outlook. One of my presentation interaction points when talking about Outlook was to tell the person asking the question "This was already a feature introduced in Outlook __". Outlook got especially destroyed by Ribbon. It is capable of so much more than is exposed by the UI. The same is true for Excel, especially once you add various add-ons. Ribbon made it easier for novices to learn a handful of shortcuts using multiple key strokes (press alt and follow the letters that appear). It also destroyed workflows of countless power users.