Although some people hate the Ribbon, many users (including some Computerworld editors) find it easier to use than the old interface once they've gotten used to it. Microsoft claims that research shows that -- so much so that the company has decided to incorporate elements of it throughout its entire product line, .

Microsoft has spent untold millions of dollars on advertising through the years, but one campaign stands out above them all for its sheer incomprehensibility -- the series of ads in which the odd couple of Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld do mundane things such as search for cheap shoes at a bargain basement discount store and annoy a family for no apparent reason.

Launched in September 2008, these ads were in the advertising and tech worlds. They lasted only a brief time; Microsoft was smart enough to .