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		cake on Feb 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cognitive Style of Unix I think Microsoft tried that with Office (2000 and more ?), they had adaptative menus. Apprently most of the users disliked this feature and it was eventually removed (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jensenh/archive/2006/03/31/565877.as...)

bigfudge on Feb 17, 2011 [–]

They did, and it worked great on your own machine after a few weeks. The problem was it made everyone else's machines basically unusable.

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