Microsoft to Roll Out Ribbon Again for Windows 8

[azcoyote]

HATE the Ribbon.

 

[bobothetwit]

Time to buy my first Mac...

 

[Guest]

Um, you guys do know you can minimise the ribbon don't you? That way you can keep the reduced-number-of-clicks/functionality/efficiency of the ribbons and not lose real estate. I work in an environment (medicine) where change is pervasive and key to moving forward. As such we are always having to learn new techniques. Sure, it takes a bit of time to get used to, but stop whinging and get on with it. Darwin probably said it best - Adapt or die (like the IT dinosaurs you are destined to become).

 

[g-thor]

Marcus, please, please, please have somebody proofread your articles. Please.

 

[mrface]

You can minimize the tab by double clicking it. To maximize it from there, just double click it again...

-cam

 

[Guest]

Ribbon is here to stay because it is the right step toward making Windows 8 and Microsoft Office usable wih a touch screen.

Windows 8 would be more confortable in a tablet than Windows 7 because of ribbon.

 

[bobothetwit]

[citation][nom]bonedoctor[/nom]Um, you guys do know you can minimise the ribbon don't you? That way you can keep the reduced-number-of-clicks/functionality/efficiency of the ribbons and not lose real estate. I work in an environment (medicine) where change is pervasive and key to moving forward. As such we are always having to learn new techniques. Sure, it takes a bit of time to get used to, but stop whinging and get on with it. Darwin probably said it best - Adapt or die (like the IT dinosaurs you are destined to become).[/citation]

Yes, but I've been getting tired of Windows's faults for a while now, and I dislike my experiences with the ribbon in Office 2007. Just not for me.

 

[JamesSneed]

It will be interesting. Part of the ribbon issue for Office is it is the only app that has that exact layout. If they standardized the ribbon in Windows and Office it may seem more straight forward since use of the ribbon would be much more frequent.

 

[bobothetwit]

I'm feeling very anti-microsoft today.

 

[ProDigit10]

Yay, another bit of screen real estate taken by a useless ribbon!
I hope it's disposable!
Nothing beats Win 98 startbar and menu system!

 

[11796pcs]

Whatever, with huge monitors and the fact that you can disable it- it won't be a big deal. And when I'm working with Open Office (I know we're talking about Microsoft but bear with me) it's hell to find even the simplest of commands, if you take the time the Ribbon is actaully not too bad. Yeah for the first 30 minutes of using it- it sucks but when you get used to it you can actually save some time.

 

[Thunderfox]

[citation][nom]tallguywithglasseson[/nom]Ribbons are fine after you get used to them, you just have to take time to learn where everything is[/citation]

The problem is that searching for things is a nightmare, because you can't just look at a whole menu at once and know what is there. You can't passively soak things up so that when you need something, you might say "oh yeah, I saw that in here earlier".

In order to learn it you must make a point of studying and memorizing the meaning of every single icon, as well as their positions, or look up every single thing you want to do in the help file. It is for this reason that I've never liked icon bars without text. Not intuitive at all.

 

[Krnt]

Space is the most important thing in my screen (and vertical space is much more valuable), Anything that waste from my screen is not welcome, for the same reason I use Google Chrome, Still using Office 2003 in some of my computers and on others I use Open Office. All of them keep space functional.

But Ribbon on the other hand use the space of 4 or more Icons to be used in just 1 (ONE) ICON!

Or even worst It sacrifice my Workspacce!

 

[dextermat]

Remember:

win95=ftw
win98= more or less good
millenium = sucks
2000 = ok
xp = good (after sp2)
vista = totally sucked
win 7 = ok
win 8 = it's normal it will suck
win 8.5 or something else = good

 

[dalethepcman]

I just hope they decide to ditch the ribbon completely and go minimalist. When I open up windows explorer its not so to randomly look around my hard drive and start playing with files and folders out of boredom. I am in there to accomplish something, and taking half the screen up with a stupid ribbon is the dumbest idea yet.

With all of the current monitors being wide screen the last thing I want is to take up 200+ of my 1080 pixels of depth on a stupid ribbon.

 

[gm0n3y]

I'm all for added accessibility as long as the interface is easily customizable.

 

[Guest]

its all speculation, stop wasting time. Do something more fun i know i am.

 

[f-14]

wow if that's their idea of a ribbon i could do waaaaaay much better. hmmm i should patents it after i figure out how to program it for linux.
just the name ribbon ispires so much better ideas of what it should be.
heck even slide show works.

 

[Marco925]

Ewwwwwwww Ribbons

 

[_kb]

With the move to 16:9 screen formats (a dumb move IMO, but that's all about cost), this only serves to take away more of the precious little vertical screen real estate we have.
If it could be reworked as a side bar (where we now have plenty of space) it might make sense.

 

[ravewulf]

I love how the ribbon organizes things into tasks/categories, but I HATE how it wastes so much space.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]tallguywithglasseson[/nom]Using the same icon for every action, however, makes no sense. Someone must have decided orange donuts are pretty, however it would be much better to have recognizable icons for familiar actions. Form over function, and the form honestly isn't that great.[/citation]
Those are just placeholder images used in the mock-up. If this made it into a release they would add the real icons by then.

 

[Guest]

Windows 8 is supposed to be TOUCH FRIENDLY ... all you haters of ribbon and icons - can you see the difference between tapping on icon and browsing through text menu with a finger? And to those who think the ribbon will take too much space on screen - you first try using Office 2010 ... the ribbon can be minimalized, therefore it saves a lot of screen. Lot of things has keyboard shortcuts, so you can memorize them and use the piece of software without opening the ribbon at all.
You just have to wait. Microsoft is now working in a different way and all the users will be allowed to test-drive Windows 8 just like they were with all the recent Microsoft products. You can try and THEN complain.

 

[the86d]

They haven't even fixed all the issues with Windows 7 yet. Right click like 10 mp3's in the same folder (without left clicking them) and you can get different menus with missing options. Don't get me started on Windows becoming k-fused with drivers, additional hdds with windows on them (not even primary-master) and Windows 7 whacks out 50% of the time I guess thinking you are trying to pull a fast one, when all you wanted is the data. Lag factor 7! I would rather become a full-time Slackware ninja before this!

 

[the86d]

What they need to do is actually test, and use programmers in the US. They would have less issues with a whack OSuX. If they could address issues from users even of OEM Home editions and listen to their legit issues, Windows would have none... but alas, they want you to buy retail for complaints, ninjas have no reason to chance not getting listened to for $500 retail!