Today the current buzz (besides the buzz about ZuneHD of course) is a piece of news about Wave 4 posted by LiveSide that Live Writer is to get the ribbon interface. You can read it HERE. As someone who posted about this on the Clubhouse a while back about how I felt that Writer should get the ribbon I am really excited to hear this news. I posted about my wishes for writer to get the ribbon interface way back in July. You can read my post about it HERE. In the LiveSide post, LiveSino has made a very good mock up of what Writer might look like with the ribbon interface and he hasn’t made a bad job of it at all! It’s more or less how I would expect everything to look, with the plug-ins with their own tab, and the blogs with their own tab.
Of course its only a mock up but far better than I could manage when I posted about how I pictured it all working! Premonition? Can I see into the future? Are the Live teams determined to grant my every wish for Windows Live and its desktop applications? No. It’s actually much more simple than that. It actually makes sense to apply the ribbon interface to a program like Writer. It’s quite a complicated program to use and as I have remarked before, It always amazes me just how many use Writer to blog with and yet are not aware of most of its features. The introduction of the ribbon interface will make using Writer so much easier for newbie's and veteran users alike. So I for one look forward to this snippet of information being completely true and I can’t wait to try it all out!
TG
