Microsoft porting Office ribbon to Windows 8? Screenshots inside

It appears that the Ribbon UI introduced in Office 2007 and further cemented in Office 2010 as well as certain Windows 7 and Windows Live applications is being ported over to Windows 8. More specifically, it is being introduced in Windows Explorer, according to screenshots obtained by Rafael Rivera and Paul Thurrott and posted at Within Windows.

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Windows 7 came out about a year ago I think everyone is still burned out from all the hype from win7. Its like having 2 presidential election a year apart. I am tired of being bombarded by windows news from last year.

No thank you.

Thank you.

I'm not against change, but I find nothing wrong with the current menu and tool bar. I know the new layout makes things easier to find, but being knowledgeable in the way of the Windows key on the keyboard, I don't have issues finding what I need, lol.

Windows key, U, U. Have a nice day!

As much as I love Microsoft products, I have to agree in that Windows 8 is incredibly premature. It hasn't even BEEN a year since RTM.

There is still a lot of building to be done on the Windows 7 platform, and they are worried about the next iteration. Well, I guess they want to get this cycle's ME\Vista out of the way early.

Wake me up when they start talking about windows 9.

All this hoopla about Windows 8 is probably going to work against Microsoft's best interests. This could make Windows 7 look like an interim operating system and companies that are finally looking to make the jump off of Windows XP may procrastinate a little longer.

I hope not. Windows XP needs to die in a fire.

I don't get why the hate with XP. It is exactly the same (at normal use, ok?) but no so good looking. Is that why?.

First. All these "Ribbons" are horrible vs. a clasic Pulldown Menu and a clasic Toolbar. Really "Ribbons" are a complete recoil on a windows GUI.

Second and One More Time: "Windows XP works and works very well".

no thanks, it's pretty much useless.

To me, a ribbon hinders to much.

Come to think of it Windows 3.1 never crashed on me, unlike XP.

Ribbons... ribbons... and more ribbons... What a mess !!!

I was more of a Windows 3.11 fan myself, more or less the beginning of networking as we know it today.

XP is fine if you are still on a machine build from 2005.

Its virus central, has terrible uptime and just sucks with modern hardware.

Am I suppose to use my Quad with 12GB's of ram on Win xp?

As someone else posted Win xp needs to Die in a fire already. And unless your in a corporate environment you have no excuse to be still on it.

lol these are the 3 reasons I see alot.

A. Your cheap.

B. Your a novice.

C. Your CHEAP!

D. A ******* that thinks XP is better than Vista/7 because your too slow to learn a new menu.

Mmmm, it seems that something is wrong with Windows XP ... and... Why half the desktop computers in the world still have it installed ???

I'm with you, perhaps the majority of the XP fans here simply can't afford to upgrade. In any case, I've always wondered how these XP diehards know it's better than Vista or Windows 7 since presumably that they're not running either of the more current operating systems.

Plus, as was just pointed out by Lionvibez ... hardware support is going to do nothing but get continually worse over time. There's a reason Microsoft cut ties with XP on the release of IE9, sooner or later it's simply time to move forward.

... Mmmm, Maybe because It's better than a Windows 8 (or 6.2) with a Ribbon design !!!

"Am I suppose to use my Quad with 12GB's of ram on Win xp?"

At this moment, I use a desktop computer that runs 4 virtual machines at same time over VirtualBox 3 to test a Oracle RAC !!!

Into my Virtual Machines, three OS guest have a Linux (or Solaris too) and other have Openfiler (Linux too).

My Host PC has a Phenom II X4 to 3.2GHZ, 8GB of RAM, 3 Sata II HDDs (of 500GB each) and 1 IDE HDD (160 GB) for backups.

and It's works very well, of course I use "Windows XP x64" like Host OS.

Because chances are half the computers in the world are still running the same OS that came with the computer. I.e. people don't upgrade their computers.

Maybe some of those people downgraded from Vista, but if you're making a 100 bucks a month, chances are you're gonna keep your PC from 2002 around, cause a new one will cost you half a year's pay.

I forget which Gibson novel described the hacker who basically cleaned out all of Africa because they used obsolete hardware and software. Food for thought.