Why did UI’s turn from practical to form over function?

E.g. Office 2003 vs Microsoft 365

Office 2003

It’s easy to remember where everything is with a toolbar and menu bar, which allows access to any option in one click and hold move.

Microsoft 365

Seriously? Big ribbon and massive padding wasting space, as well as the ribbon being clunky to use.

Why did this happen?

  • pyre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    last time i used libre office was probably more than a decade ago and it was atrocious. did they make things better?

    because i still don’t have ms office and would like to have an alternative to edit documents other than uploading a file to google docs and downloading it back.

    • MonkderVierteEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I think they got better.

      But there’s still other (closed source) office suites in a pinch.