IMO, one of the most interesting parts of the new Office interface, is it's complete disdain for the past. In fact, ask any user of pre-2007 Office how to simply Open or Print a document, and they're confounded. The old "File, Edit, ..." menu structure is just GONE. Completely. Replaced by a round bubble with 1970 pop graphics on it, which doesn't even look like a button. By my calculation, they saved around 70 pixels in the menu area. Love to been a fly on the wall in THAT meeting!
Of course both Apple and MS are guilty of writing a set standard of GUI interface guidelines, then completely ignoring them. IMO, that's really funny. On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Lynn Fredricks < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Its funny Chipp, but I got my first, first hand look at this at CES 2007 > and > that is really what struck me the most. > > At the time was thinking about huge corporations that have settled in on > using Office, or various government agencies. Even fairly mild updates, > like > Office 97->2000, there's a lot of training that usually takes place to get > everyone up to speed. But then there's this ribbon thing. What additional > value is anyone going to get from this to justify the cost of all that > training? > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
