Microsoft's Mac Business Unit announced Tuesday that their timetable has them releasing file converters to read Office 2007 file formats in older Mac versions of Office sometime this Spring, probably late March/early April.
Microsoft has done a cool and smart thing, and decided to let (almost) everyone use the Office 2007 UI.
The Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh (wow! spiffy name!) is now available for download. Just go to this page.
As a great way of easing the transition from previous versions of Office, the Office 2007 team has created "Interactive Command Reference Guides".
Jensen Harris drops the confirmation: Beta 2 (the public beta) of Office 2007 will hit later this month, joining the Windows Vista Beta 2, which is expected on May 22.
I've been getting more and more email lately asking to have a look at Office 2007.
Microsoft has put out a 13-minute video introducing the Office 2007 user interface and guiding users through what is different and why it is better.
Microsoft today released the refresh of Beta 1 of Office 2007 (could we just call it Beta 2 and feel better?).