Microsoft previews new user interface for the next release of Office

Microsoft have today released a preview of the new user interface (UI) for the next release of Office, currently code-named Office 12.

In a statement released to the press at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 in Los Angeles today (13th September 2005) the new UI was hailed as the "biggest, most visible change to the way the core Office applications work since the introduction of the toolbar in 1997."