Remember when Microsoft launched the new RibbonBar upon the world and everyone started bitching about it. You know … this thing
Well I guess it can’t be all that bad since the office suite from OpenOffice appears to be sporting the same thing now.
So much for this idea being the scourge of program interfaces I guess. Wonder what they’ll be whining bitching copying innovating on next?
hat tip to Mary Jo Foley
Huh, strange. While I didn't mind the ribbon much when I moved to Office 2007, I *do* find it very curious that OpenOffice would copy such a feature. Kinda upsetting in a way as I always found OpenOffice to be the essence of knowledge worker tools – all the things you needed, but not much of the stuff you didn't.
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I think the ribbon *is* more efficient, it was a surprise to me when it showed up, and the learning curve was very short but rather steep. In my case it also coincided with a rapidly approaching deadline, an almost finished report and a quick switch to a computer using the new office.
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I don't get it. Those look nothing alike.
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Which version of OO is shown? I use OO on both of my computer, both the latest
v 3.01
OOO300m15 (build 9379)
They seem to just have the normal looking bar on top.
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for what I could figure out Joe the new toolbar is a proposal for the next version of OO
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