@SecurityWriter this sounds thorougly excellent. I love the future!

@tstruthers @vosje62 @bert_hubert @jwcph except this is all a fiction.

I agree entirely with the sentiment but MS changes the game completley with every 2-3 releases anyway.

Start bar, the ribbon, constant pushing to save in onedrive, task bar to dock, IE to edge to new edge, teams refocus on "updates", conversations in outlook, complete binning of UIs for a new one (outlook, whiteboard) on and on it goes.

Moving the UI around to confuse the shit out of the users is the modus operandi of MS, and if we're saying there's intertia because people are familiar with it, that just can't be correct. At best it must be that decision makers THINK their users are familiar with it.

In my honest and considered opinion ofc!

What some competitor would be best to do is create 3-4 modes of what the UI looks like, that correlate to different generation of MS apps, and provide a clear and easy way of selecting the appropriate one.