Documents are placed vertically and computers are going wide-screen en masse so the real-estate at the top and bottom of my screen is valuable when working with documents! I know it's possible to collapse the ribbon but that's not a particularly practical ....vacri? I'm not even sure how dynamic or contextual they are. I haven't really played with it enough to discover that. The point is that they removed the menu bar, and replaced it with a tabbed cluttered interface. ...