I don't have a blog or a website. However, I would be happy to read yours where you provide statistics to back up your claim that users overwhelmingly are against the ribbon.
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After furious head scratching, darkrats asked:
| So does mine. Your statement that people overwhelmingly were in
| favour of (the ribbon) shows me that you did no research into this
| and just gave us the standard MS MVP party line, to dismiss my post
| without foundation. Do you guys ever read anything but your own blogs
| and websites?
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | Au contraire, MVPs are some of Microsoft's biggest critics when they
| deserve it. This is not one of those situations.
|
| Your statements about Microsoft ignoring users opinions tells me that
| you did no research into this and just grabbed a statement out of
| thin air to criticize without foundation. My statement stands.
|
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| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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| After furious head scratching, darkrats asked:
|
|| "Quite the contrary if you had done any research at all"
||
|| Thanks for dismissing my opinion with that kind of statement. Typical
|| of MVPs attitude toward anyone critical of MS. You know, the fact
|| that there are 3rd party toolbar fixes for Office 2007, shows that MS
|| could easily have given us the option of using the older toolbar
|| setup, if they had chose to do so. It's only my opinion (again) that
|| MS declined to do this in order to force users to move to the Ribbon
|| style toolbar.
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|| || " Noting users say, is going to change the mind of MS. They are so
|| big that they don't have to listen to us any more. "
||
|| Quite the contrary if you had done any research at all before forming
|| your opinion - Microsoft has done extensive usability research before
|| instituting the Ribbon - and they found that people overwhelmingly
|| were in favor of it once they began actually using it.
||
||
http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh is one place you can start to read to
|| see how this evolved.
||
|| And remember, people who are satisfied do NOT post to news groups
|| proclaiming how happy they are - these places are for complaints and
|| problems.
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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|| After furious head scratching, darkrats asked:
||
||| MS will not do anything about the Office 2007 interface. The ribbon
||| is their new toolbar design, and they would even like to see it used
||| by other software makers. Noting users say, is going to change the
||| mind of MS. They are so big that they don't have to listen to us any
||| more.
|||
||| However, if you want to go back to using the older Office toolbar,
||| then check out Classic Menu for Office 2007, found at
|||
www.addintools.com and you won't be disappointed.
|||
|||
||| message |||| I installed Office 2007 Ultimate 6 weeks ago. I regret doing so.
|||| Everytime I
|||| use it, my work is interrupted by the revised interface and
|||| whatever I am doing takes longer than earlier versions. I am on
|||| the verge of uninstalling
|||| 2007. Does anyone know when MS will do something about the
|||| interface?
