On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:06 -0500, William Baric wrote: > Le Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:30:19 -0500, Lars D. Noodén a écrit : > > > Also, I'd like to think that OOo is about making a useful productivity > > suite and *not* about copying MS Office, especially the interface > > mistakes. > > I didn't use Office 2007 much myself, but I installed it on a few people's > workstation. I guess it's too soon too know if the ribbon will be, in the > end, a good or a bad idea, but I know that every person I choose for my > test wants to keep the ribbon. Not a single one of them wants to > go back to Office 2003. Basically, they are now able to discover and do > things they didn't even knew existed with Office 2003. I now see people > who are saying "I want Office 2007 too", even after I tried to discourage > them. > > Again, it's too soon to really know, but from the little I've seen, my > guess is the ribbon will be a big success for Microsoft. > > One thing is for sure, even if not everybody like the ribbon, the one who > do will consider the old interface as inferior. OpenOffice must either > offer something similar
I believe MS has patented the ribbon so OOo needs to implement similar (better?) functionality in a different way. That is the real challenge, do something better and sufficiently different not to get sued for patent infringement - Ok, probably a law suit to defend such a patent would fail since Apple's failed against Windows but the cost and risk still has to be considered. > for those people, or do some other major > innovation on the interface. The statu quo won't be good enough. Forcing a > new interface to everyone would be a bad idea, but forcing an old > interface is even worst. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
