Here is another Facebook Connect enabled website on the Web and its another biggy: Microsoft. The software giant is easing connectivity for users for Ribbon Hero, its add on for Windows Vista and Windows 7. The add on is for Office 2010 and 2007 with an idea to make learning the Office tools like Word, PowerPoint and Excel fun and more interactive.
I am myself a bit shaky when it comes to using Office 2007 to even half its potential like many others out there and with all those tool bars at the top, I get intimidated. Seriously it has taken me years to improve on that and memorize functions with the hit and try method. But Ribbon Hero has been designed for the purpose to give you more confidence when it comes to using the tools. The result? Well you might very well end up learning many of the tools that an awful lot of Office users are unaware of, eventually you will be able to call yourself a pro at the Office Suite.
The app works much like the countless that already exist on Facebook. The moment you are connected via Facebook Connect, you are asked invite your friends, why? Well the bait here is you competing with them and seeing who is better? If you do manage to do better than others you can also boast it by sharing the achievement with fans of the app on Facebook. The only major requirement is that users who plan to challenge others must have at least Windows Vista running Office 2007 or 2010.
It interests me a lot to see how almost every name on the Web is utilizing Facebook for publicity of their products and applications. Microsoft has however been the forerunner at integrating with Facebook more than usual. I mean its quite unlike Microsoft to actually use a service without actually creating a brouhaha about acquiring it.
