Office 95 doesn't look that functionally different from Office 2003:
Office 95: https://i0.wp.com/isoriver.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/06...
Office 2003: https://imag.malavida.com/mvimgbig/download-fs/office-2003-s...
Honestly even Excel 3.0 (1990) doesn't look that disimilar (https://goughlui.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/about-excel....)
So that's 17 years for toolbars vs 13 for ribbon
Still, I guess more MS Office users will have used the new interface for longer than the old one than vice versa (I googled for data, but couldn’t find numbers)
It even wouldn’t fully surprise me if, a few years from now, there were more MS Office users who never used the pre-ribbon interface than who had used it.
Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
by MagnumOpus on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:30AM
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> The first version of Office for windows [...] is from 1998. [...] 9 years, vs 13 for the ribbon interface.
You are not even close to right. Excel for Windows is from 1987 (20 years with non-ribbon menus), Word for Windows is from 1989 (18 years with non-ribbon menus). And of course the menu bar paradigm itself is older still.
Re:LibreOffice: The Next Five Years
by listenallyall on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:42PM
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you came here to be wrong?
Came here for this. The first version of Office for windows (which is what most people are familiar with in terms of UI) is from 1998, so the non-ribbon interface has been around for 9 years, vs 13 for the ribbon interface.