Microsoft to Backport Windows 7 ‘ribbon’ Interface to Vista

Microsoft planning to backport a “ribbon” user interface appearance it introduced in Windows 7 to Windows Vista, according to the company’s developer Web site.

On the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), Microsoft indicated that it is planning support for the interface in Vista about the same time Windows 7 is released. Microsoft has said it would absolution Windows 7, the follow up to Vista, common on Oct. 22.

The ribbon framework, part of Windows 7’s graphical presentation layer, is an interface that uses a beheld command bar at the top of the page to absolute a user to menu items and toolbars that were ahead hidden in drop-down menus.

Microsoft first introduced the ribbon with the “Fluent” interface for its Office 2007 product, which at aboriginal acquired some alteration pains for users who were acclimated to the previous interface.

On the MSDN site, a Microsoft controlling wrote that a Vista user can download the interface already it’s accessible as an update, to be alleged the Windows 7 Client Platform Update. The software will be a “recommended update” through the Microsoft Download Center on Windows Amend and will not be automatic.

More advice about the Windows Ribbon framework can be beginning on the MSDN site. Microsoft did not acknowledge to requests fabricated through its accessible relations close for other advice on what prompted the move.

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