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Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> >> BTW, OpenOffice beats down the new MS Office in familiarity factor...
> > Sort of. The new office is easier to use tho.
>
> BTW, did you see the designs for the "ribbon" interface?
>
>
http://www.geek.com/articles/news/openoffice-experiments-with-a-ribbon-interface-20090812/
>
> The difference, of course, is that OO developers are going to guess how the
> ribbon should be designed, and MS actually spent years looking over the use
> patterns of 14 million users to decide.
use patterns of 14 millions users... and somehow got something completely
different and awkward for someone used to the old way...
That's why I prefer vi and emacs: solid, well-grounded 30+ years interface
design... ;)
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