autocratic for the people.

Okay, look.

I can understand that the Office team wants to overhaul the interface. Everyone agrees, it's way past its sell-by date. And, I get that their philosophy is that it's better to sacrifice more screen space permanently for the "ribbon" in order to lose the floating toolbars and other detritus that clogs the screens of past versions.

But I refuse to believe that we really need that many buttons on a pop-up email composition window. Good god, what a mess. Is the purpose of this window not simply to enter text?

(From here.)

posted by avixe @ 6:53 PM