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Cyberfrog ... Did you ever use a microsoft office product before the 2007 version came out with the Ribbon Bar feature?
Did you find, that your previous experince in using that office product, had to be thrown out the door, your keyboard shortcuts that you've learned changed, the placement for pictograms to click on be difficult to find, and that some commands require extra clicks of a mouse, or that you hunted around for things on these ribbon bars?
Its the simple fact, that given 50 people in a room, if only one person hasn't touched a computer, hasn't operated an office product (word lets say) and the other 49 have ... when faced with using 2007 or 2010 word for the first time, not only did that one inexperienced user have to learn where things were, and how to operate the program ... the OTHER 49 people were fumbling around for features, commands, keystroke combinations that they had already learned, but that were no longer the same in the 2007 & 2010 versions of the products.
As a student ... we don't start on 2 year calculus if we didn't learn how to do basic math first. We didn't jump right into trig, or even to algebra, without knowing the basic math first.. what we learned in basic math, was applied to algebra, from algebra to calculus & trig .. etc.. this is called building upon previous knowledge.
Microsoft threw everyone's previous knowledge out the window, and made EVERYONE counter productive until they learned this new interface of theirs ... It was the last offense in a long line of offenses they've been putting on the people, the work force, the business. I strongly support any alternative to office because microsoft didn't care for the 95% of the people that already had learned something.. and said to them.. F You, you're going to start again.. I've no time for that with everything else in life ... so in return its F microsoft.
They had the option, to give users the CHOICE of the ribbon bar, or the standard menu structure ... that would have saved microsoft this headache. But not only did they change for the ribbon bar, they changed many of the keystroke combinations further throwing out all that people had learned. Its just plain stupid.
You like it that's fine.. but make sure you respect the honest opnions of your peers, make sure you make it clear to them, you want to know if they find one thing or another to be a problem, so that they are actually thinking of the product, rather than just some passing remark (ie. don't like it .. why? ... make it an indepth so they think about it)
