Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by TensorMetric on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:29AM
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Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by wilsonnb2 on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:36AM
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Well that's disappointing. The simple ribbon in the new OneNote feels like such a step back from the ribbon UI in OneNote 2016.
It does say users will be able to enable the full ribbon UI still, so I suppose I will have to do that. Hopefully they don't deprecate that feature.
Re:Office 365 is being completely rewritten in JavaScript
by ygra on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:26AM
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In the past the reasoning to replace the menu system with ribbons completely and not allowing to switch back is the understandable desire to not having to maintain and test two different UIs all the time. Two different ribbons may still work, as the ribbon already has information about "importance" or "prominence" of each item, but I fear eventually there'll be only one remaining in the future.
However, they've announced that they're EOLing the Office version, with bug fixes through 2020 and security updates through 2025, and are continuing forward with the UWP version.
Perhaps we will see a future where they EOL the other Office applications in favor of new versions that are more similar to the iOS/Android versions. The iPad versions of Excel and Word are already pretty good.