Comments on: Office ribbons more like a chain? http://www.itwriting.com/blog/59-office-ribbons-more-like-a-chain.html Tech writing blog Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Jewell http://www.itwriting.com/blog/59-office-ribbons-more-like-a-chain.html/comment-page-1#comment-311 Dave Jewell Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:23:25 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=59#comment-311 If Microsoft were providing us with access to their own UI components, then there'd be some justification for signing - but they're not! Signing the license simply makes it ok for you to use components: components which have been developed by *other* companies such as Developer Express, TMS, etc, with no help from Microsoft. This is all about user interface 'look and feel' coupled with Microsoft's obsession with protecting Office, their cash cow. Dave If Microsoft were providing us with access to their own UI components, then there’d be some justification for signing – but they’re not! Signing the license simply makes it ok for you to use components: components which have been developed by *other* companies such as Developer Express, TMS, etc, with no help from Microsoft. This is all about user interface ‘look and feel’ coupled with Microsoft’s obsession with protecting Office, their cash cow.

Dave

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