Quote Originally Posted by dee-u View Post
I just think that the classic menu and toolbar was good enough, it was not broken so why did MS replaced it?
You could say the same about the user interface in Windows 95 - it wasnt broken so why bother changing it to what we have now in Windows Vista (or XP) ? You try going and using a Windows 95 machine now and I bet you will wish it had all the features that XP had. Just because something doesnt have any obvious problems does not mean it cannot be improved upon.

Pretty much every user in our company hated Office 2007 when they first started using it - purely because its different. People dont like change a lot of the time in software, they like to know where things are which is fair enough but all it takes is a little getting used to and then you are as comfortable with the new interface as you were with the old one.

There was a brief discussion about this in a thread that RobDogg created about Windows 7 recently, I think it was in General PC (or it might have been here in General Developer) - see if you can track that down and have a read.