On 2007-04-01, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> claimed:
> It's a UI thing.
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>| So here go, with your knowledge of Word for Windows from the last
>| 18 years, tell me how to open a document using the mouse. You'll
>| most likely answer the open document icon, or File ->Open.
>| Congratulations, and you?d be correct.
>|
>| Now this is Word 2007. Show me where the File Menu is. Stumped?
>| Well it turn's out the Office logo in the corner is the new File
>| Menu. Usually the icon in the title bar is the Application menu;
>| at least since 1995. Normally you click that and expect to see
>| Maximise, Minimise, Resize, etc.
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> http://kirwanphotos.com/blog/?p=34
Of course, users have been screaming to have this feeeeechure since,
like, forever.
> Related:
>
> Bold Redesign Improves Office 2007 But Learning Curve May Be Too Steep for
> Some Users
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>| "it requires a steep learning curve that many people might rather avoid.
>| In my own tests, I was cursing the program for weeks"
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> http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116786111022966326-T8UUTIl2b10DaW11usf4NasZTYI_20080103.html
I thought Erik said this new version was "intuitive" and had no
learning curve to speak of. I guess he lied again. Or fell for the
marketing machine's newspeak. Or toed the company line. (Oops! Sorry,
that's the same as the lie part.)
> Question: why do I need to upgrade to Office 2007?
>
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>| Microsoft, however, claims to have come up with something better
>| and more intuitive - the Ribbon. Such a claim begs the question:
>| "If the new user interface of Office 2007 is so intuitive, why does
>| it have a learning curve?" And it does have a learning curve - a
>| very steep learning curve.
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> http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/8561/1023/
>From more than one source, too.
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