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The post stems from my previous post discussing the value of whether or not Microsoft should have developed a "Classic View" navigation option in Office 2007. Let us know what you think in our current reader poll. You can add a different choice if one of the ones displayed don’t quite fit your opinion of the situation.

Image: Screenshot from Microsoft Word 2007 ©2008 Jason Bean Could the Office Ribbon be going away? No, not really but I just read about it being called something else. The new name is "Office Fluent User Interface".

It seems the upcoming Windows 7 operating system will include some nice features for their customers. First being a feature to automatically update installed games. Manual searching for patches, bugfixes and add-ons might be finally over then. The technique seems to be similar to the update technique for Microsoft Office.

Microsoft introduced a new user interface that they called the Ribbon in Microsoft Office 2007. It was designed to reduce the number of hierarchical menus in previous versions of Microsoft Office. It was a bold move that caused lots of concern by experienced Office users who had to get used to the new Office user interface.

AutoSummarize identifies the key points in a document. AutoSummarize works best on well structured documents such as articles, reports and scientific papers. For microsoft office 2007, auto summarize option is still available but it hidden and must be enable before using it.

Screenshots have been appearing all over the net of Windows 7 M3 Build 6780, and one criticism seems to float to the top every time. Users are disappointed that the UI looks exactly like Vista. This reaction although true, should be taken with a grain of salt.

Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot lighter on John McCain than they were on Barack Obama. This earned me a fair amount of ridicule at the time (and also some support, I should say).

(Click to Enlarge) Here you thought that Windows 7 wasn’t going to bring that “killer” feature we’ve all been waiting for. Well, you were wrong… big time! The third milestone of Windows 7 has been shown off to what appears to be a small group of people, and in it users are noticing that apps like Paint and Wordpad are adopting the Office 2007 Ribbon style interface.

This is the dialog you see when installing Delphi 2009 or C++ Builder 2009: There’s a similar restriction on use of the ribbon controls in the latest MFC. The license information page is here. The license itself has two provisions that you might care about.

So here we stand on the first of September with our Mets and Mets fans getting through a spring and summer that saw injuries, an upheaval in the managers office, an as advertised Ace pitcher, the emergence of a young Ace pitcher that gives fans a warming feeling of the late sixties, mid eighties when