The MSN toolbar is sleek, has a nice look and some neat features, such as the "Flip" button, but overall it's rather ho-hum. On the homepage for the MSN toolbar download, the Web site explicitly ...

Q I’ve just switched from Office 2003 to Office 2007, and although it’s clearly more powerful, I’m not enamored with the Ribbon. I waste loads of time in frustrating searches through its scattered ...

Before Office 2007, Microsoft Word's buttons were arranged in a series of toolbars. In Office 2007, controls now appear in a ribbon on the top of the window, and the program now uses a single toolbar: ...

When Microsoft introduced the new “ribbon” navigation for Office 2007, I was grateful that it hadn’t named it the Office rope, or noose, or anything that might have given my users some creative ideas.

Just hours after an early build of Microsoft’s new Windows 8 operating system leaked we’re starting to get a good idea of how the latest version of Windows is shaping up. Intrepid users have already ...

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Last month, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced Office:Mac 2011 and posted some screen shots of its future user interface. I finally got around to looking at them. Sorry to say, the ...

Are you tired of digging through Microsoft Word's cluttered toolbar to find the features you need? I was toountil I customized the toolbar to suit my workflow. Now, every command I need is just a ...

When Microsoft first revealed that the Explorer file manager would be outfitted with a ribbon-style toolbar in Windows 8, responses were loud, passionate, and frequently negative. The company recently ...

The lead user interface designer for Office 2011 for the Mac touted the software’s new Ribbon interface today in a video MIcrosoft released to pump up enthusiasm the upcoming suite. “The Office for ...

One of the most significant and controversial changes to Microsoft’s Office productivity suite was the introduction of the Office ribbon that was first seen in Office 2007. Microsoft designed the ...