What were they thinking? (MS Office 2007)

[Curtis Burisch]

It _is_ an improvement, if you give it a chance.  Where over the years 
the Menus became nearly non-sensical containers of cruft (what was the 
difference between the old "Edit" menu and "Tools" or "Insert"? 

<schnipp>

I'm a software engineer, and I hate the new ribbon interface -- yet it's
pervasive: all of the new applications I'm writing incorporate this. I'm
writing this stuff. Yet I hate it. Maybe one day it will grow on me -- but
not yet. Have some pity for the poor techies who're forced into the new
paradigm!

c