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Re:LibreOffice 4.4, the Most Beautiful LibreOffice Ever by jsherer on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:36AM (#8966675)
I believe there was controversy in the FOSS community over Microsoft's patent application for the concept: https://www.google.com/patents/US8255828

I'd speculate that this patent application provided at least a small amount of hesitation towards the FOSS community implementing a similar interface.

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