1- USERS HATE THE RIBBON, especially the older ones, u know the ones that make up the decisions!! haha! i’ve been ordered “not to deploy anything beyond MSO2003″

2- A simple COPY operation to a usb flash drive takes 3x times in Vista than XP. and to be exact: from a (a)SATA2 HDD,1GB RAM,2008 HP LAPTOP with Vista Vs. (b)PIII IDE DISK, at least a decade old
That happened JUST TODAY! scout’s honor and stuff m8s!

3- Vista’s menus are NOT customized from the user the way and depth xp does (or lets to be done via tweaking). Here the foreposted user mentioning the start menus battle is absolutely true: vista’s start menu IS NOT customizable by YOU but customizable by IT!

R U LISTENING??????????

What else is there? do i need to mention the 10x clicks and windows in vista??

Do i need to mention the “GLOWING” bullsh*t on every system animation or stuff like that? hell! we work on APPS not on windows explorer… come on, i need explorer to be a fire-fox

cheers, … and:

ONLY ONE THING COMES TO MIND: GIVE UP ON VISTA! MS WILL SURELY DO

in your case you won’t be needing win7 but you’ll just need a usb floppy
drive and an xp cd works EVERYTIME and assures digital lifestyle that is OWNED by ME or YOU, not MS, OEMs, DRMs etc… F*CK ‘EM. vistcrap or VISTA ΣΒΗΣΤΑ

I really only use wordpad for cut-and-paste operations for content with rich text, I prefer wordpad over one note because it makes documents more portable and quicker to use.. I like its simplicity but I think it needs more features rather than more gui toys…

I really dont think wordpad needed that to be honest. If I had the time I wouldve maybe broken the ribbon down a bit more making those menus appear from button drop markers (like Word 07′s quick frame etc).

Other than banal criticism I like what you did to it, its looks cleaner and fits in better with the office 12 suite.

If my wordpad looked like that I might actually use it thanks for your work!

My example:
Try to put a simple textbox in MS Word 2007. The insert > textbox button always open-up the menu for additional textbox style.
But for equation (some button beside), you'll have 2 separated button. The big button itself insert an empty equation space for typing, and the drop-down button gives you additional details on it.

Also try to push as much as possible into the ribbon itself. And give the "More…" button to open up the standalone conf. window

PS: The ribbon search function is a must. Custom tab also great (anonymous)

@Everyone else:
I was recently able to hear some MS employees (one from the core Office team) mention that when getting feedback from customers from Office 2003, approximately 90% of the features that people requested were already in Office and that they just didn’t know how to access them. The old menu system was a tangled tree of nested menus that the average customer couldn’t figure out how to navigate. As for the customization of the ribbon, it was hinted that customization might be included (at least in the next version of Office), though it was never officially stated, and until MS officially declares it as a new feature, I would at least assume that they are working on it, even if they are unable to release it with Windows 7 or Office 2010.

@Developers:
If you use Visual Studio, you will be pleased to know that VS will not be gaining the ribbon for as long as the VS developers can predict. The ribbon was made for a more sparse collection of functions, and VS exceeds the maximum by about 2000.

More features my use it well, though.