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As for the Ribbon, in office 2010, it's fully customizable and so much easier to use than in 2007. It's evolved to the point where it's functionally powerful out of the box, and fully able to be tweaked to your heart's content. I personally can't stand arrays of toolbars at the top of my windows with cryptic 16x16 icons. The clean picture-to-function connection is much easier to understand now that the ribbon icons are much larger. The most common features are present (again, probably studied heavily by Microsoft's interface teams) on each tab. If they're not, put them there yourself. I agree, in 2007, the lack of customization was a nuisance. But now, it's not a problem at all.

I'm not a Windows fanboy. Linux is mostly unusable as a desktop interface due to the lack of continuity between the vendors and constant struggles amongst themselves. OSX is easy to use too, but also has its quirks. Windows has quirks and nuisances and annoyances just as all the other OSes do.