What is Ribbon in Sharepoint 2010

Ribbon Bar is a new feature of sharepoint 2010 which is available in Microsoft Office 2007. SharePoint 2010 follows the same thing as it is in office 2007.Now comes to what Ribbon is. Ribbon is basically a toolbar that appears across the top of each page in SharePoint. In Ribbon top-level elements are tabs and each of tab is organizes in a set of groups and contains a set of controls. And these controls inside the groups include buttons, drop-down menus,
check boxes, combo boxes, split buttons, and galleries. In short, the users now can see the options like checkOut,Check In, Edit Page,Publish Page, delete page under edit tab, on the top of the Page itself.