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Originally Posted by chaley
To this day I curse Microsoft for introducing the ribbon.
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Then there are those of us who bless Microsoft for the Ribbon.
For me at least the old fixed menus were an incoherent shambles and the click-a-button bars were almost incomprehensible. I can now drive Word with ONE finger. And, in the first few months of using Office 2007 I discovered more about Excel and especially Word than I had learnt in decades of previous use.
Those who don't like the Office Ribbon have the option of installing add-ons like Classic Menu, or using something like Open Office and its derivatives - for free.
OTOH Vista's barely announced deprecation of Column Handlers in favour Property Handlers was a first-order tragedy. Most of the existing Column Handler dependent tools were never redeveloped for Property Handlers - and there's little evidence of their use in MS tools. Ranks with Mozilla's decision to kill-off a vast library of extensions with Quantum. Many of which have not, and cannot, be replaced in any
mainstream browser I know.
Note: MS Property Handler APIs are orders of magnitude more complex (richer ?) than the old APIs, whilst the Mozilla WebExtension APIs are a much reduced (some say pathetic) subset of what they replaced.
BR