It'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 clear

It'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.