Microsoft teases more Windows 8 details

From InfoWorld: Microsoft has posted a detailed explanation of the new, improved, ribbonized Windows Explorer in Windows 8. In a nutshell, Microsoft is grafting a ribbon onto the top of the Windows Explorer window -- no surprise -- that closely resembles the ribbons in Office and a handful of Windows 7 applets.

Here's the part that surprises me. Microsoft relies on "telemetry data" which is collected and automatically forwarded by people who participate in the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement Program. The telemetry data for earlier versions of Windows Explorer "shows that 54.5 percent of commands are invoked using a right-click context menu, and another 32.2 percent are invoked using keyboard shortcuts... while only 10.9 percent come from the Command bar, the most visible UI element in Explorer in Windows 7 and Vista."

From that observation, Microsoft deduces that making the command bar more accessible -- with a ribbon -- will improve Windows Explorer.

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