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I love the ribbon. I just got sick of memorizing arbitrary locations. I also manage IT and see even our more clueless users able to use it with ease. From a no

I love the ribbon. I just got sick of memorizing arbitrary locations. I also manage IT and see even our more clueless users able to use it with ease. From a non-power user perspective its actually nice. Not sure whats going on with this metro stuff, but the ribbon has been a pretty big success outside the group of people who have long memorized menus and are annoyed they need to learn something else.

jessriedel 14y ago
It wasn't just the re-learning that was a pain with the ribbon (although that in itself needs to be justified by some gain, which I just couldn't find in the ribbon that hadn't been found in the graphical tool bars in previous versions). It was that lots of functions weren't even there to find! You had to customize the ribbon just to access functions I used every day. It also took up a third of my screen real estate on my netbook, so I had to choose the 'auto-minimize' option, and wait for it to slide open every time I wanted to change a font size. What a pain...