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The simple answer is that MS had to add all those buttons in the ribbon to make the UI more touch friendly. You cant right click on a tablet with your finger.
by siromega 15y ago
The simple answer is that MS had to add all those buttons in the ribbon to make the UI more touch friendly. You cant right click on a tablet with your finger.
- lucisferre 15y agoThe problem here is really the ribbon itself. It is ugly awkward and hard to scan quickly due to it's inconsistent layout. I almost never find what I'm looking for without looking two or three times and I'm a regular user. Yes tablets need buttons to touch, what they don't need is a cluttered ugly ribbon.
- wisty 15y agoI can't believe this wasn't upvoted more. Moving to this design is a step in the right direction. They need to do more - like ax the filesystem altogether (rendering this step meaningless), but that's another story.
- danssig 15y agoIf they want to go touch they should be getting rid of the file system, not making it easier to manage. Touch devices are appliances. The reason I left windows in the first place was because I was sick of managing it. I'm certainly not going to pay money for the joy of managing an appliance.
- r00fus 15y agoThere are more elegant ways to add touch-usable capabilities than gobbling up real-estate (iOS implements the "context menu" as a long-click meta-mode). You could also use persistent buttons like PalmOS/Android. Discoverability is a prime way to keep things elegant (ie, don't push it in a user's face - let them find it easily). Of course, if Microsoft wants to address BOTH touch and desktop, then I wish them well... that's a herculean task and I don't think any solution work well for either.
- saratogacx 15y agoPress and hold is right click. Android, iOS, Windows Mobile, Tablet versions of windows for at least vista and 7 all use this.