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The comments on the linked page say it, but it bears repeating: why blatantly rip off the features of your competition that are bad?
by rwolf 17y ago
The comments on the linked page say it, but it bears repeating: why blatantly rip off the features of your competition that are bad?
- mullr 17y agoIt's hard to call the office ribbon UI 100% bad. I've used it to some extent and it's actually grown on me. It's certainly weird and different, but they clearly put a lot of thought into it. In particular, the allocation of tasks to the different tabs is usually very good, and the automatic switching between them usually happens at the right time. I very frequently find myself looking for a toolbar button and immediately finding it because it showed up automatically. What really gets me is, now that everybody has a wide-screen monitor, why do we continue to put administrative debris at the top and bottom of the screen? Most of what we care about (web sites, word processing, email) is tall and narrow anyway, so there's a lot of unused space on the sides.
- taitems 17y agoNot enough people in the business world are using widescreen monitors or even "decent" resolutions. Executives and business types actually choose to use 1024x768 or sometimes smaller just so the text is bigger and easier to read. Shell has over 100,000 users worldwide on its intranet and have only just recently upgraded from IE6. Most corporations have strict operating guidelines.
- dkersten 17y agoAgreed. I might even flip my widescreen monitor on its side. Maybe not at home, since movies don't work so well like that, but certainly in work where I don't watch movies.
- actually 17y agoPerhaps because the design of those features were backed up by statistical improvement metrics? http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/11/573348.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/04/11/573348.aspx