Most commercial applications in this day and age have fairly decent user interfaces. A lot of money is put forth into making them as user friendly as possible. The problem is that sometimes these "friendly" ways aren't necessarily the best users of screen real estate. Nowhere is this better exemplified than Office 2007's "ribbons". Now if you're on a screen that is 20"+ and running at 1680x1050 - who cares? I certainly don't mind. On the other hand if you are on a netbook that is running 1024x600 on a screen that is 10" or less, you want every pixel you can easily get. I went over some of this (albeit, indirectly) in Optimizing Windows 7 for Netbooks, but since it is a netbook after all, you're probably going to be making good use of our favorite web browser - Firefox.
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