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1. Comment - Microsoft to License Office 'Look and Feel' for Free

   (Nov 22, 2006 - 1:20 PM)

   What I find most worrying about all of this is the way in which it is stated that the ribbon must resize when the application window is resized. This is fine on a Windows system, where the menubar, and now the ribbon, are contained within a window, but how does this apply to the Macintosh UI? There's a big difference between the Windows UI and the Macintosh UI in this respect - there is no application window as such for the Mac, so my concern would be that the ribbon UI cannot be applied to the Mac.
   
   If Microsoft succeed in transitioning users/corporates across to the ribbon style of UI (clearly something that is in question) for both their software and that of other third party developers, that might increase the problem of getting people to switch to the Mac, because the difference in UI becomes much greater.
   
   This is not all bad, of course - if people generally do not like the ribbon-style UI it could be a positive reason to switch to the Mac... But knowing Microsoft's tactics I am highly suspicious of this move and the motives behind it.