News - Microsoft bringing ribbon interface to Windows 8 Explorer

[baius]

Er... When did somebody remove the cut, copy and paste shortcuts that I use in explorer on a daily basis?

Apologies, I wasn't clear. If you're using the mouse ONLY, you can't just click CUT in Vista/7. You have to go to Edit > Cut. (You even have to re-enable Menus IIRC.)

In other words, I feel this was a downgrade from XP. In XP you could choose to have OR not to have Cut, Copy and Paste icons - on display at all times - for easy clicking.

No, the shortcuts (Ctrl+ X, C and V) thankfully haven't left us; for now.

[badass]

Apologies, I wasn't clear. If you're using the mouse ONLY, you can't just click CUT in Vista/7. You have to go to Edit > Cut. (You even have to re-enable Menus IIRC.)

In other words, I feel this was a downgrade from XP. In XP you could choose to have OR not to have Cut, Copy and Paste icons - on display at all times - for easy clicking.

No, the shortcuts (Ctrl+ X, C and V) thankfully haven't left us; for now.

press the alt key. All XP menus magically reappear

[baius]

press the alt key. All XP menus magically reappear

Worth knowing; cheers. However, I just force-enable them.