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.
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.