I find it odd people constantly knock Microsoft or state how low the bar is they set, based on something like a bloody icon.<p>e.g. Personally speaking I consider the Ribbon to be a wonderful piece of GUI design and the implementation when used in a contextual manner is superb. They took a bloated unfriendly (but critical) set of menus and commands and made them easy to use again catering to an extremely broad demographic. Comparing something like ConvertBot (which incidentally is a lovely piece of work) to that level of HCI design is ridiculous IMO, and just demonstrates a lack of understanding of the craft.