PreviousMicrosoft Office 12 (beta 1)
Preview The next generation of the Microsoft Office system offers a new look and feel across its applications, with dynamic formatting tools and nimbler files.
PowerPoint 12 (beta 1)
Preview PowerPoint 12 reorganises its interface and dresses up presentations with a vast library of templates.
Excel 12 (beta 1)
Preview This overhaul to Excel provides new charts to visually analyse complex data; its tools also respond to your behaviour.
Word 12 (beta 1)
Preview The next generation of Word drops its menu-based interface in favour of a system that hopes to read your mind, adding jazzed-up graphics and shrinking file sizes.
Outlook 12 (beta 1)
Preview Microsoft's desktop email client provides new skills for handling and sharing tasks, as well as a revamped search engine and built-in newsfeeds.
Inside Windows Vista Build 5231
Preview The latest build of Windows Vista includes more tools for system diagnostics and connection, plus a more finalised Internet Explorer 7. Here's a screenshot gallery.
Windows Vista: Build 5231
Preview The latest build of Windows Vista includes more tools for system diagnostics and connection, plus a more finalised Internet Explorer 7. Here's a preview and a recap of Vista's progress to date.
Inside Vista's Windows Presentation Foundation
Preview In build 5219 of Windows Vista, Microsoft puts its efforts into a new graphics engine.
Office 12 pre-Beta 1: screenshot gallery
Preview The next release of Microsoft Office shows a radical departure from earlier versions, as it gets more visual and adds tabbed browsing across all of the individual applications.
Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1
Preview Microsoft Office 12 pre-Beta 1 drastically revamps the user interfaces of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
Google Desktop 2.0: screenshot gallery
Preview Google plans to add more features when it finalises this desktop search tool and content portal. Here's what it looks like so far.
Google Desktop 2.0: a first look
Preview Google's new desktop search utility includes a sidebar to display your local files, as well as your email inbox, Web history and more.
Windows Vista Beta 1: screenshot gallery
Preview Take a look inside the forthcoming operating system from Microsoft. Although it's not due for release until late 2006, a few features are worth checking out.
Dreamweaver 8: a first look
Preview The new Dreamweaver better displays CSS elements and lets you drag and drop XML feeds.
Macromedia Studio 8: a first look
Preview Macromedia aims to jazz up Web-based animations, videos and mobile content while better integrating the five applications in its updated suite.
