change for the sake of change equals crummy UI decisions

[spatch]

We've secretly replaced the old "working" version of the Microsoft Office suite in this workplace with Office 2007. Let's see if anybody notices.

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Well, the widespread retching and cries of "Has someone figured out how to turn off the Fisher-Price buttons yet?" echoing up and down the cubicle walls definitely seem to indicate that somebody's noticed.

Comments

[piezocuttlefish.livejournal.com]

Huh. I am thus far thoroughly enamoured of the ribbon bar. I've even begun designing an application that uses the ribbon bar for its interface. There are a couple quirks that I dislike about how it functions, such as sometimes I want it to just stay put instead of changing on me. On the whole, though, I like the ribbon bar so much that I'm writing an application that is driven by a customised ribbon bar interface.

I am also a big fan of the keyboard, but I guess I haven't used it enough to run into sernin's problem.