Following in Gmail’s and Apple’s recent redesigns, Microsoft is giving Office a makeover.

Over the coming months, Microsoft will begin rolling out changes to the interface of Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint for Office 365 and Office Online (Office.com) users.

Key to the Office app redesign are an updated Ribbon, icon refreshes and new ways to more easily see changes coming to the Office suite.

There’s a simplified version of the Office Ribbon, which allows users to collapse it so it takes up less space and hides many options,

ZDNet

I think this will be adopted and liked everyone hated the ribbon design at first now everyone loves it.