Windows 7 Interface To Look Like the Office 2007 Ribbon?
APC has a speculative piece on the future of the Windows 7 interface (Windows 7 is the successor to Vista, which should appear some time in 2010). According to the article, the Windows 7 interface will incorporate a “markup-based UI” built on XML, potentially similar to the ribbon and jewel interface of Microsoft Office 2007. The article infers this from a job advertisment posted by Microsoft, which is looking for a new UI developer.
Not everybody, of course, is a huge fan of the Office ribbon. Let’s hope that if Microsoft does incorporate elements of the ribbon into the core Windows UI, that they do some work to clean it up. And please, give those of us who like our drop-down menus the option to keep them. [apcmag.com]
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I’ve always liked windows, yeah blow me, but if they add that evil ribbon to Windows 7, that’s it… I’m moving on!
Microsoft are barking up the wrong tree foisting a crap UI on users without giving them a choice to revert to a classic interface.
I would expect by 2015 that Linux will have enough of an impact on global PC interfaces and have an equally impressive application set. Macs might eat into this space as well, but the growth trend is still a fraction of the ‘doze market.