No More Office Ribbon?

Image: Screenshot from Microsoft Word 2007 ©2008 Jason Bean
Could the Office Ribbon be going away? No, not really but I just read about it being called something else.
The new name is "Office Fluent User Interface".
Can that be right? I’d think the ribbon was developed for people that weren’t as fluent with the Office applications as those users that were probably considered "fluent" in the first place.
In fact, I’ve had a couple of conversations with people that have suggested that the people Microsoft left behind with their Office 2007 user-interface redevelopment were those above-average and "expert" users.
History tells us that …read more