Chris, The Mac Business Unit explains some of their rationale for the UI in this blog post:
http://www.officeformac.com/blog/evolution-at-work ...and other posts tagged with "Usability" and "Office 2008 User Experience". Basically, it's the second option you said. They see the value of the Ribbon, but they felt the UI on the Mac version was already headed a different direction. I'm curious what, specifically, feels like poor integration with OS X? For example, the version of Office 2008 that I bought came with a Microsoft application for photo management, and I worried that I would need to use their app if I wanted to easily integrate photos into my Office docs. But I was pleasantly surprised to see that all the Office apps have visibility into my iPhoto, iTunes, and iMovie libraries for importing media into my documents. So I'm just curious where you felt let down. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35167 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
