What Our Partners Are Saying...
“I am impressed with the level of detail in the new Office 2007 UI guidelines, which together with the license agreement will help ensure the great new UI is used correctly and consistently in those applications that choose to implement it. SandRibbon offers most of the Office 2007 UI feature set for use in .net applications and helps application developers make sure they adhere to the guidelines.” -Tim Dawson, Divelements Limited
"Attachmate's customers place high value in being able to provide applications to their users with a consistent look and feel as other applications on their desktops. Since Microsoft is the leader in defining new UI paradigms, it is valuable to Attachmate to be able to leverage in our own applications Microsoft's investment in the user experience." -Randy Robinson, Senior VP of Products and Marketing, Attachmate Corporation
"We are excited about the innovation that Microsoft Office 2007 user experience brings to our revolutionary report designer, Radius - built using the latest Microsoft technologies: Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Legacy reporting solutions are simply not adequate as they ignore the advances in today's technology environment. Report creators and consumers are demanding a better way to create and share reports. With the advances in Microsoft Office 2007's user interface and focus to make information workers more productive, we have been able to bring to market a fresh, new reporting solution. Radius enables people to create reports easier and faster allowing them to immediately be more productive." -Michael Matrick, co-founder and President, 90 Degree Software
"We are interested in licensing the Office 2007 UI because we see it as the next step in helping users share critical business information. The 'Ribbon' merges menus and toolbars into a simpler, more contextual UI, which we think will help users to get the best out of rich software products such as Mindjet MindManager and Microsoft Office." -Richard Barber, Vice President of Research and Development at Mindjet
"After working with an early version of the Microsoft Office 2007 UI, I realized just how much better my user experience was. The improvements were astounding and reflected the massive investment Microsoft has made in usability and user-interface design. I am excited that we can now leverage this investment for our customers. Using Syncfusion Essential Tools' licensed replication of the Office 2007 UI, our customers can develop products with a similar look and feel to Office, all in a way that we know is legal and royalty-free! The advances made by Microsoft with Office 2007 will have great impact, and Syncfusion is extremely pleased to keep in step with all the latest enhancements."-Stefan Hoenig, CEO, Syncfusion, Inc.
"The user interface in RobotStudio has grown so large that conventional menus and tool-bars don't really cut it anymore. Luckily the Ribbon will allow us to continue to add functionality while maintaining the ease of use." -Bertil Thorvaldsson, Product Manager for RobotStudio, a software application for programming of ABB Industrial Robots
"The new Office 2007 interface represents the best in cutting-edge design. We are excited to be able to license this technology and leverage the substantial investments that Microsoft has made in developing it. Because the target audience for our Serena Studio product corresponds closely with the business audiences targeted by Microsoft Office 2007, Serena users will benefit from the resulting consistency in user interface design and metaphor. We are thrilled to participate in the new ecosystem of applications leveraging the Office 2007 user interface technologies." -Tom Clement, Senior Software Development Manager, Serena Software