I agree with you Katie, with one exception: if the company is a small software vendor with a strategic partnership with Microsoft, then doing the whole Office 2007 Ribbon thing may get your program shown off by a very large distributed Microsoft sales team. If I was deciding based upon usability and user acceptance, traditional Windows-style wins, but there may be business reasons for a small vendor to go the other way. Large well-known software houses, specialist leaders in their verticals, web shops, or in-house work can probably safely ignore the '07 Ribbon forever - it's only the little software startups on the edge who may want to take the dare and hope that the Microsoft sales force benefit outweighs the '07 Ribbon annoyance.
Michael Micheletti On Dec 11, 2007 3:16 PM, Katie Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment Vista has a very low adoption rate and a very high "Oh, > my God -- let's go back to Windows!" rate...So, I think that at this > point it makes a lot of sense to stick with the Windows > standards...generally speaking. ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
