Comment Re:todo: Remove RIBBON (Score 3, Interesting) 516
The ribbon gui in msoffice drove many people to switch to LibreOffice.
Given the proportion in market share between Open/LibreOffice and MS Office, by "many" you mean something like 0.1%?
LibreOffice didn't exist before the stupid ribbon gui was launched. Today million users use LibreOffice instead of propriety msoffice, more like 10-20% market share. And most of the people still forced to use msoffice hate the ribbon gui. Still HATE it.
The missing start menu drove many people to switch to Linux.
See above.
(in practice, most people who don't like the new Win8 UI just stay on Win7)
Windows8 is preinstalled to a larger degree than msoffice is. Ordinary people cannot be bothered to reinstall windows7.
The destruction of win32 (a good API in it's time) drove many developers to switch to Linux/posix.
What destruction? You can still take a program written against Win32 API as it was in NT 3.1, recompile it, and it'll run on Win8. Heck, you don't even have to recompile if the architecture matches.
win64 was a lost opportunity to fix win32 and make it good, instead we got "win32 for 64-bit windows", which is stupid and wrong. MS got cold feet, marketed other technologies as
