The team responsible for the Windows 7 graphical user interface is planning to include several new User Interface (UI) concepts into the Windows 7 plattform. One of them is the graphical user interface widget Ribbon which users of Microsoft Office 2007 experienced first hand. Microsoft refers to the implementation as the Office Fluent Ribbon which basically describes the menu bar at the top.

Users might have noticed that most options are available right in the menu and that users do not have to search in various submenus anymore to access those functions.

Long Zheng mentioned that Microsoft’s goal is to switch from the Win32 UI framework from Window 95 to a more lightweight, high performance markup-based UI framework.

The information became available through a Microsoft job post where they were looking for Senior Technical Leader to “lead the effort to update the Windows 7 platform with the latest advancements in User Interface design and to bring the Ribbon, Jewel, and other new UI concepts to the Windows platform.”

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