>Notice that Windows explorer has the ribbon interface. I know a lot of people hated it >in Office 2007. I'm still using Office 2003 so I don't have experience with it in >Office but Windows Live uses it and I kind of like it now that I am used to it.
I'm in a half-way house. I use Office 2007 at work, hated the ribbon when I first got it, and installed Classic Menu (to get the original menus as well as the ribbon).
At home, I'm still Office 2003 (does all I want), but increasingly I'm looking for the ribbon at home. LOL.
Guess it just takes time ....
> Din't W7 come out like a couple of years ago's. Whats the big rush. XP lasted like > 8-9 years. I know it's all about money and making money but do they really think > people will want to jump on this since they only had W7 for maybe 4 years and the way > the economy is now. Is W7 going to be outed dated really by then ?
No, Win 7's got a lot of shelf life yet. Specially for people like me who tend to hate / turn off the graphical glitz.
I'm still using Vista at home (an awesome OS, once you get it set-up just how you like it - and that's been a "process"), and 7 at work (liking it more each day). With VM's running everything else I want to tinker with.
I think the rush is that MS are trying to be the leader on this instead of the follower.
LOL - they could have just rolled out an iOS theme for Windows 7. That's basically what Win 8 looks like so far.