[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by 13xforever

Now, that's debatable. Proof, please?
I think MS made their decisions not on a wink of their mind, but after extensive usability experiments. Moreover, extending this control further in their apps is proving this point even more.

I know, a lot of people dislike it, but it seems that they hate it on the basis of that "everyone hates it". It's the same story as with Vista.

Not for me. My new computer came with Vista, and I've enjoyed it after getting used to is.

Now we have Windows 7 (which in reality is simply a tweaked Vista) and suddenly everyone likes it. Now we have Ribbon 2.0 and I think a lot of people will switch their sides too.

For me, I don't think I will switch sides because it is better. I think that I'll be forced to switch sides when MS makes itself incompatible with earlier editions. Again.

One thing that I did for myself was use whatever feature it is that let me put a mini-toolbar up next to the round Windows logo. I parked a bunch of my most used items up there, such as "undo" and "save." I quickly got tired of wasting time searching the blasted "ribbon" for basic functions, when all that I wanted to do was finish a task and move on.