Microsoft released screenshots and information at PDC 2005 on its future plans for Office.
They re-design the whole user interface for Office 12. (The UI looks very samilar to Apple Mac OS X)
and lots of feature have been added.
from the screenshots, The tool bar is so big.
looks like you need a much bigger screen to use these

Office 12 will enter into beta by the end of the year.

source: Neowin

I'll likely use it eventually somewhere, but I'll stick to what I have now until I have a reason to switch. I'll likely see it at school or in the workplace first... Frankly I'm not that excited and I dont like the new look from what I've seen, but to ech their own

Looks very nice man. I will defently look for this product when it will be available.
I like the interface. It's very buetifull. 10/10

Looks usefull but its a Microsoft - They didn't change source code for Microsoft Office last 10 years. Probably they wont until new software appear on market. Then they will rip all they can and make something new.

What do you mean but it's microsoft. There is no better product like Microsoft Office. Maybe I am wrong correct me if am not but all shool and colleges use Microsoft Office because there will never be better one.

Technicly it's impossible, I mean think about Microsoft worked on for about 10 years. There is no way some other companies will try to make same software.
MS office has it's reputation.

Oh yeah. They have. MS office is the best software of that kind there is. It will be time they come with a new one. But i thought it would come out with the new OS of them. Isn't that right? I could be wrong. I use MS office all the time. The only problem is, I have 2003 and at school they have 2000. So if i make a PPpresentation here, it won't work good at school.

You people who say Microsoft Office is "the best": have you used OpenOffice.org, Star Office, Word Perfect and all of the other popular word processing programs for any significant amount of time? Or are you just singing the praises of the one program you know?

Calling anything "the best" implies that you have tried all of the others. If you haven't, then your words mean nothing.

Well said. I'm not mad about Office to be honest, I've never been too mad about Microsoft Office, sure you can insert fancy WordArt and stuff, but I like OpenOffice much more. For one thing, OpenOffice is free!
Also, Microsoft seem to be obsessed with making thier products look better than actually working better, or adding more features.
The current version of Office has fancy gradients and new toolbar images, but that seems to be it!

I Love the theme of it, but I cant get to view the other screen shots, because BROKEN LINKS Overall the Outlook Calender is, 10/10

I Also will look out for Microsoft Office 12

Glad you posted this, it revealed what I would never find out,

Thank you jedipi

This design was nice, mutch better than the 2003 verison, I have.. But im not sure if I will buy it..