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> the abominable 'ribbon' that no other windows app ever emulated

Other than, I dunno, Explorer, Paint, WordPad, Visual Studio, Dynamics, Photo Gallery, Movie Maker, Live Writer, SQL Server Report Builder, Mathematics, and then some.

What other applications were you expecting them to add it to?

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Visual Studio does not have a ribbon UI.

Anything not made by Microsoft?

I've seen a number of applications especially around that time move to ribbon or ribbon-like UIs. Pretty much all of Corel's apps moved to a ribbon. Redgate tools. Solidworks. AutoCAD. Foxit PDF. NitroPDF. Lots of healthcare apps like Epic. I dunno, I've probably seen several dozens more odd domain specific software suites with it over the decades. I've also seen a lot of in-house custom apps made with the ribbon UI toolkit.

What version(s) of Corel's apps used the ribbon? Not CorelDraw 2024 according to this screenshot:

https://www.coreldraw.com/static/cdgs/product_content/cdgs/e...

(I'm a happy user of CorelDraw X7 on my Win7 machine ;-)

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