Microsoft design in a nutshell.

[kickaha]

http://www.betalogue.com/2008/05/20/word-2008-how-to-assign-command-g-to-find-next/

This beautifully encapsulates why MS products are so damned hard to use, and are full of ubiquitous WTF.

Comments

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

I have seen enough quiet backing off on the ribbon that I would not be too surprised to see it fade to the background in future releases.

They won't abandon it, obviously; that would mean admitting they fsillied up. But I think you'll see a "classic menus" option in the next release of Office, and the ribbon will not get a whole lot more development cycles. I would definitely be surprised (and emphatically not pleasantly) to see the ribbon extended into Windows 7.

I don't *know* anything, nor have I heard any rumors along this line. And the backing off I've noticed has been pretty subtle. So I could be way off base. I hope not.