- A new menu system - Ares 3.0 Uses the Microsoft office 2007/2010 style ribbon interface.
- Tabbed interface - Ares now opens queues as tabs in the main window. Also you are no longer locked out of a previous windows. You can open multiple items at once or multiple queues and move freely between them
- Edit Course / User / Item menu options have been replaced with search dialogs directly on the main ribbon.
- System alerts are now shown in a side window.