My friend, for me me dynamic resizing, and live preview, even if they are included in a tabbed glossy tool bar don't reach my threshold level of "innovative". I've seen it before, but will concede that I haven't seen it in that exact combination. I suspect that we will just have to agree to disagree.

Innovators in the computer world are, for me, people like Alan Kay, Alan Turing, Doug Engelbart, Dan Ingalls, Adele Goldberg, Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston and many more I will (although tempted) not list.

What I am grateful for, and feel protective of, is the ability for others to build on these peoples work. The ability for others make stuff without having to worry about getting stuck in a mico-innovation patent thicket over a shiny tool bar matters, even if what they are making is not innovative.

That was the point of my original post and why I also included this .

It's interesting that you bring up the "Ribbon" as there is prior art for it, yet Microsoft is trying for a patentland grab on a relativity common User Interface concept.