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Jensen posted a very good post today on the UI blog telling the official story on user customization. For readers of this blog, the story shouldn’t be too much a surprise, but he fills in many details and gives a good overview of why Office 2007 ended up with the current customization model. He also announced a few new things in post-Beta 2:

• “ability to query for the icon of a command”
• “execute it [a command] directly from code”

I will be eagerly looking forward to those changes!

The personal highlight of my day though was this sentence: “Patrick Schmid has illustrated many of the techniques necessary to make this work on his blog”, complete with a link back to my website.

Thank you Jensen for that and for this great post!