Wrong, the decision to not customize the main Outlook window (all items
opened from the folders display the new Ribbon format) is due to the
complexity of menu options available right now in Outlook.

Since you don't use Outlook, just take a moment to consider. Use Tools menu
choice and then Options, for instance, then view the myriad options
available. Open any tab and see how deep say the Preferences tab is for
options. Pick the Email Options and you have even more choices, such as
Advanced Email Options and Tracking Options. From there you have further
nested options.

Cleaning up Outlook to share the same Ribbon as the rest of Office would
take an entire Office release on its own. Therefore, the Office UI team
chose to spend its efforts where it would get the most return on its
investment of time and talent.

Read Jensen Harris' blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh for a better
understanding.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, JoAnn Paules [MVP] asked:

| There are so many changes and work involved in the new interface that
| Microsoft opted to devote the time on the four most-widely used
| products.
|
|
| wrote in message
| ps.com...
|| I have read that you can't revert back to the "File" menu system and
|| you have to use the "Ribbon." I have also read that you have to use
|| a "third-party" product to customize the "Ribbon." What I really
|| want to know is why does Outlook and Publisher use the old "File"
|| menu system?