When it comes to Windows, there is nothing I love more than Microsoft’s infamous Ribbon interface—and nothing I hate more. Using it in Microsoft Office is great, but adding Ribbon to Windows 8’s file ...

With each update to its Office suite, Microsoft Corp. has piled on features aimed at boosting users' productivity and goosing sales of the world's most widely used collection of programs for handling ...

Microsoft plans to backport a “ribbon” user interface feature it introduced in Windows 7 to Windows Vista, according to the company’s developer Web site. On the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), ...

Project Renaissance aims to deliver a new user interface for OpenOffice.org. The team recently completed the prototyping phase and is asking users to provide feedback on the eight UI options, which ...

Microsoft will offer Windows 7’s ribbon-style application interface to Windows Vista users in an update this October, according to the company. As first reported by Long Zheng, the blogger who writes ...

The lead user interface designer for Office 2011 for the Mac touted the software’s new Ribbon interface today in a video MIcrosoft released to pump up enthusiasm the upcoming suite. “The Office for ...

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LibreOffice is perhaps the most popular open source alternative to Microsoft's Office productivity suite, and most importantly, it's completely free. The latest version, LibreOffice 6.2, brings even ...

UI changes are inevitable, even open source software introduces changes. For instance, Firefox 4 was recently released and its interface has been reduced to the address bar and tabs, and some buttons, ...