Visual refresh of Office apps for Windows

"Share your presentation using Outlook and notice the cohesive interface which helps you stay in the flow." Do these people speak English?

All seriousness aside, I can think of a few things that would IMNSHO improve Office:

1) Make the title bar change color depending on whether the application has keyboard focus, so I can stop accidentally deleting things because I forgot Outlook/ Word/ Excel etc. had focus.

2) Get rid of the "backstage" distinction. I may need to refer to something on the "front stage" when using the "back stage", like the text of my document when I'm saving it for the first time. I can't do that now because of the "back stage", and the isolation of that "stage" does not help at all.

3) Give me back the menu system as an option. I STILL hate the Ribbon. Ok, I know you don't listen to users like me, so I know you won't do that. But at least allow me to hide the ribbon completely, like I could when it first came out. The ribbon has mostly commands that I don't need (can you say "Mailings"?), but when the ribbon goes into "reduced" mode it has even fewer commands that I need. In other words, it's useless, but it won't auto-hide.

Is Outlook still using Word rendering engine to display HTML?

This website didn’t even open unless I “reload without content blocker”