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Microsoft Word 12, originally uploaded by Antonescu Razvan.

Microsoft Office 12 Beta mailing list just announced a list of blogs written by Microsoft Program Managers:

• What’s New in Access “12” (Eric Rucker)
• What’s New in Excel “12” (David Gainer)
• What’s New in FrontPage “12” (Rob Mauceri)
• A User-oriented View of OneNote “12” (Chris Pratley)
• OneNote General (Owen Braun)
• Outlook General (Will Kennedy, GM)
• Outlook Tasks and Time Management (Melissa MacBeth)
• RSS/Search/Sharing (Michael Affronti)
• Outlook Programmability (Ryan Gregg)
• What’s New in Project “12” (Dieter Zirkler)
• Publisher “12”, XPS and more (Jeff Bell)
• Visio “12” (Eric Rockey) – Future looks bright for information Architects
• What’s New in Word “12” (Joe Friend)
• Windows SharePoint Services (PJ Hough)
• Document Management, Workflow, & Records Management (Rob Lefferts)
• Office “12” New User Interface (Jensen Harris)
• Office “12” New XML File Format (Brian Jones)
• Publishing XPS Documents (Andy Simonds)
• Publisher “12”, XPS and more (Jeff Bell)
• PDF Support in Office “12” (Cyndy Wessling)
• TechTalk with Steven Sinofsky

Why this release is so cool? Here is what Paul Thurrott has to say on it:

Making a bold move–rather than “painting the pig” as they had with previous versions–Microsoft elected to dramatically change the Office user interface for the first time ever. It seems the menu and toolbar-based interface had become obsolete somewhere along the way.

Don’t forget to check the screenshots galleries also.

Update:

To make it easier for you tro subscribe to the blogs above I have created an OPML file conatiuning them. Use this link or point your aggregator to http://razvan-antonescu.info/office.xml