Reply to post: Re: Just repeating the same nonsense every time...

Five words everyone wants to hear: Microsoft has 'visually refreshed' Office

Daedalus

Re: Just repeating the same nonsense every time...

I remember when MS Office joyfully announced that they would no longer be slaves to the Windows UI and would roll their own instead. You can see a certain sense. As you drop down the scale from the tech-savvy through the fakers to the everyday drones, you realize that allowing change to occur is a bad idea. Even today some poor striver will accidentally change a setting an start thinking their PC is infected and the world is about to end. So fixing the style of the UI, even if it allowed only bland, blander, and blandest choices, made sense. Of course that didn't stop the fungus of designeritis from infecting other aspects, which is how we got the ever-changing, ever-confusing ribbon.

What really rankled was that the same gang of idiots got to work on Visual Studio. Now that was a crime.

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