Comments on: Look for Ribbon in a Windows 7 application near you

By: Xp Lover

Xp Lover — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:41:57 +0000

Someone please port the ribbon libraries to XP please, i’d love to have Live Movie Maker and 7’s Paint on XP

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:39:51 +0000

My ribbon apps are already ready

By: Jetztream » Blog Archive » Windows Scenic: Windows 7’s Ribbon-based UI platform

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:54:41 +0000

[...] months ago there were indications Microsoft was working on an Office 2007 Ribbon-inspired interface for Windows 7 which at the time sounded bizarre and is still today. How it is implemented in “Scenic” is [...]

By: R2X2 - Blogs and News for real nerds.. » Windows 7: Introducing WinFX, minus .NET?

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:21:07 +0000

[...] isn’t the first we’ve heard of this. Long first revealed a job description back in March that related to a new, native UI framework for Windows 7. The PDC [...]

By: The Microsoft Empire « Limulus

The Microsoft Empire « Limulus — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:38:00 +0000

[...] the bit that blows the mind: Microsoft is going to develop another ribbon, this time as part of Windows Seven. It won’t be the Office one, and it won’t be [...]

By: » News For April 2, 2008 » InsideMicrosoft-part of the Blog News Channel

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:44:55 +0000

[...] Ribbon Joining Windows 7 User Interface The Office Ribbon, one of Microsoft biggest software design innovations of recent years, is getting promoted to Windows. The Office UI element will be built into the Windows 7 platform, available for all software developers to access and use in their applications. Quite the vote of confidence, but when you’ve got something good, you should spread it around. Read more about it at Long’s blog. [...]

By: David

David — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:58:37 +0000

@al: actually, I wrote that APCmag story around the middle-to-end of last week (can’t recall the exact day, as I write a lot of stories each week!), but it was held over until t’other day because the magazine’s Web site was being cut over to an all-new design, and in the interim no new stuff was posted onto the old site.

By: al

al — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:39:55 +0000

3 days later, apcmag has “the scoop”
http://www.apcmag.com/windows_7_to_have_all_new_user_interface.htm

By: Bazooke

Bazooke — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:57:29 +0000

Never like Ribbon… I still like the traditional GUI…

By: GRiNSER

GRiNSER — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:24:47 +0000

@hoopskier: In my opinion, it doesn’t make any sense to build yet another different set of APIs for the same target. Also GDI+ should be finally dumped for a hardware accelerated, DX based API (like milcore), since GDI doesn’t offer the power for fancy stuff you see in OS X or even Vista (Aero is based on milcore, the only part with fancy effects in Vista – and Vista is built by the Windows division – duh!).