So, with the release of Office 2007, Micorsoft has replaced the ubiquitous File menu with a pulsating Windows logo. Clearly the last two and a half decades of almost all GUI software using the File menu was enough to make Microsoft abandon this common and well-understood interface. Sadly, this will probably make other companies scramble to re-invent their own GUI software to use their own pulsating logos.

This is nothing new from the idiots at Microsoft. They convinced much of the marketing world to abandon normal numeric versioning for sofware in favor of the year that the software was released. They convinced keyboard manufacturers that 101 keys just wasn't enough and they had been missing three more keys all those years.

It is my hope that this time the software community will realize that Microsoft is again doing the wrong thing and not adopt their new ridiculous pulsating logos in place of the simple word File. But I doubt it.