Comments on: The Ribbon Sucks

By: deniz.mermerci

deniz.mermerci — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:13:17 +0000

The good thing about ribbons is people are starting to look out for other than Microsoft products.

By: John

John — Fri, 07 May 2010 07:10:00 +0000

The “new” ribbons in Windows 7 are a cluttered, hieroglyphic throwback to the menus used by the DOS version of Lotus 1-2-3. Remember when pull-down menus were hailed as an improvement? What happened to that perspective?

By: db

db — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:17:31 +0000

The ribbon is a heart-ache… Microsoft annoyed the hell out of me because their operating systems have always been full of shitty things that made things more difficult than they needed to be for no good reason, but I forgave then because I really liked Excel and I quite liked Word. Now the ribbon has changed all that… once in at least every day I will spend ten minutes trying to do something in Word or Excel that used to be intuitive, and I get quite angry (which is not like me)…. all criticsms of the ribbon are valid, I have yet to hear what is good about it. I had already figured out that there is a mole from Google or Sun involvd. However, Windows 7 is starting to show signs of improvement on the OS front. One of the things I always hate about Linux whenever I install it (for a few weeks every now and again) is the lack of a clear and clean menu structure and stupid meaningless icons and I spend a week getting wireless working and then I spend a week trying to find a decent picture viewer and then a week trying to do something else and then I realise I don’t have time for this. I have downloaded Open Office (for Windows) it actually looks quite nice and it opens Office docs and its Excel even has asolver and a choice of macro programming languages.

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:04:33 +0000

I don’t know what you guys are talking about. I love the fact that MS took clean, uniform, linear, minimalist toolbars, and replaced them with a big cartoonish crazy jumbled clusterfck of a gui. Makes perfect sense. And what’s more, Autodesk thinks it’s such a great idea, they’ve started to incorporate it too for 2010, in a collapsable three-tiered pile of multiple subcategory pull-downs that guarantee you’ll be hunting and digging around for the few dozen of the ten million commands you need to use their programs.

This ribbon is a virus of the mind.

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:49:15 +0000

Thank you for this site!
Personnaly, I really HATE the ribbons. I stopped the use of Microsoft Office Applications in the CLASSROOM since MS Office 2007. Since then, we still use Office 2003, because Office 2007 (and probably 2010, as well) is no more ‘teachable’. The only way to discover it’s silly dynamics of changing menus is TRIAL and ERROR. – Now I seriously recommend the use of LINUX (like UBUNTU) and OPEN OFFICE + other open source – alternatives. If you mention those programs, please only judge after profound empirical analysis (we tested it until today with more than THOUSAND users (!), and it is very well done. Now think about it in terms of COST ANALYSIS: you can pay Linux-professionals during the process of conversion, and still spend much less than with expensive MS software. Most users only need 5% of the functions, and all those functions are well-done in open source – software!

By: blanko

blanko — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:44:10 +0000

teh ribbon is yet another crappy useless change by MS which epitomises why america is going down the tubes fast – its cosmetic and offers no hard product value. useless useless useless.

By: Ribbon Hater

Ribbon Hater — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:43:42 +0000

Just installed 2007 about 2 weeks ago. The result was an experience analogous to opening a Christmas (b-day) present (from grandma) to find nothing but socks, but in this case socks inside a box colorful box that had pictures of totally cool toys on it instead of socks. MS is starting to remind me more of my grandma everyday.

By: kilmo

kilmo — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:13:20 +0000

trying to adapt to the ribbon for year and a half now it remains a huge time and money consuming feature for us hardcore office users not to talk about the frustration accompanied. the people who are saying the ribbon is good might be menu-phobic beginners or microsoft employees and contractors. the others are vastly furious about it and the user experience doesn’t improve by time cause there’s a lack of functionalities…. it’s like trespassing himalayas by a horse …

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:12:11 +0000

Fuck the ribbon it sucks….if you like the ribbon you suck too.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:33:04 +0000

I like the ribbon. In my eyes, it is definitly a big improvment. It may take time to adapt for long time office users, but i truly believe that it is a big step forward when it comes to usability