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That’s the buzz from Joris Evers at CNET:

Microsoft plans to ship a new preview release of Office 2007 next week, a company representative said Wednesday.
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The updated beta changes to the user interface, bug fixes and other changes to make it more stable.
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The beta refresh will be available only to the about 10,000 participants in a private testing program.

The last beta release was in November and it was also a restricted beta released to a limited set of testers.

2 Responses to “Office 2007 Beta refresh next week”

1. Office 2007 user interface goes blue -- Microsoft News Tracker Says:
   March 10th, 2006 at 1:02 PM

   [...] The Office 2007 Beta technical refresh that is rumored to be coming next week is supposed to have revisions in the new Office 2007 user interface. Microsoft’s Jensen Harris yesterday posted numerous screenshots (which were also shown at CeBIT) to demonstrate the changes and one new feature is immediately obvious. Don’t adjust your monitor, they really are shades of blue! [...]

2. Joint launch for Vista and Office 2007? -- Microsoft News Tracker Says:
   March 14th, 2006 at 5:16 PM

   [...] Finally, the rumored technical refresh of Office 2007 Beta 1 was released today to selected testers. It’s the one that introduces the new color scheme. Filed under Office, Office 2007, OS – Client, Windows Vista, Beta and CTP, General Business, Public Relations, Marketing, Microsoft Listen to this article   [Permalink] [...]