Windows 7 - programs ribbonised

Jamesy · 18-09-2008, 02:55 PM

Let me start by saying I am extremely grateful to the people who are giving me the opportunity to post this information. I'm not one for acting over-priviledged, so let me clarify that I'm just a medium here. I don't know who the people are behind these screenshots, but as far as I'm concerned, all the credit goes to them, so, thank you, whoever you are!

This time, I'm able to bring you a screenshot of the WordPad UI. As you can see, it essentially looks just like Word 2007. These two screenshots show that the ribbon UI is indeed making its way into even the most basic applications of Windows as Bill Gates stated it would earlier in the year. How useful that implementation will be in the end won't be fully determined until Windows 7 goes gold, but for now, it's cool to see their ideas being implemented up to this point. What do you think about the continuity of the ribbon UI being used in Windows 7? I've mainly seen 2 types of opinions up until now and they're both the extremes of one another; people either love the ribbon bar or they despise it. See my write-up a couple of posts down to make the link between my previous notation of generalized specifics and this screenshot. For the record, .docx files are not yet supported. I certainly hope they are by 2009/2010. Anyway, onward to the screenshot!

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I think this is a nice step towards a replacement for the menus we have had in windows since '95.

windows 7 seems to look better in every update.

lthough software giant Microsoft has faced scrutiny over Vista, they have begun new internal tests on their new OS Windows 7; the new version of the software M3 or build 6780 is planned to be shipped to attenders of the PDC in late October.

In the M3 build, Microsoft has ported the 'ribbon' user interface from MS Office to numerous other bundled applications, as usual Microsoft has tasked the team that created the 'ribbon' UI to update the shell style as well. Numerous reports have stated that Microsoft will de-bundle certain application from Windows 7 such as Movie-Maker and Windows Mail and have them available as separate downloads from Windows Live. A Beta 1 version of Windows 7 is also meant to be shipped by the end of the year.

This version of Windows 7 is stated as being very stable and usable and way ahead of where Vista was at this stage in the development cycle.

This will most likely be leaked :rolleyes: