Is the Office 2007 Ribbon the new User Interface standard?

Will this move make the Office 2007 Ribbon the new UI standard?

Licensing the 2007 Microsoft Office User Interface“For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?"
Well, I'm pleased to finally be able to definitively answer the question. Today, we're announcing a licensing program for the 2007 Microsoft Office system user interface which allows virtually anyone to obtain a royalty-free license to use the new Office UI in a software product, including the Ribbon, galleries, the Mini Toolbar, and the rest of the user interface.” “There's only one limitation: if you are building a program which directly competes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, or Access (the Microsoft applications with the new UI), you can't obtain the royalty-free license.”

It certainly has potential in applications that require complex user/tool interaction and a dynamic interface…