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Originally Posted by pypo
"In my experience most users don't like (resent) user interface changes"
Sorry to disagree, but UI changes are just part of the nature of software. Goes on all the time. What people don't like are software changes that are retrograde, and it doesn't matter if they are UI or feature changes, if they are retrograde, they are disliked.
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What's retrograde and what's not, is a subjective quality.
I got my first keyboard with a Windows Key when I was writing software on NT 4, I promptly got rid of the now redundant Start taskbar button.
With subsequent versions of Windows (NT5, 2000, XP, Vista, 7) I had to get rid of it again, and again... and again
When I read that Win8 didn't have one, I thought
'bout time too, it's been a waste space since the last century. Then by gosh, with Win10 I'm back to getting rid of the stupid thing again
AFAIK even in Win 10 MS haven't provided an easy way to get rid of it (e.g. a check box in Taskbar properties), one must resort to a registry hack or a 3rd party gadget Ψ²
Why was it resurrected. Because hoards of self-proclaimed 'experts' loudly complained from their media soap boxes; and then the sheep blithely followed their beloved judas goats and retweeted, and retweeted. Thus it was that a feature that's been redundant for a decade and half gets reinstated; just because some 'poor diddums' hacks threw their toys out if their prams
Now that's retrograde, why its almost a throw back to the Stalinist-brutal or Art-deco era
For the record I love a properly done ribbon. Sadly most are warmed over ad-hoc menu's and button bars that were thrown together to address the vagaries of ad-hoc menu's
BR