It looks like the release of Office 2010 is coming up soon with a public beta now available.

Neowin have an article highlighting some of the new features that I thought would be worth sharing.

W00t they added some new slide transitions in PowerPoint since the Technical Preview!

I'm using this at work. I like the new ribbon in Outlook, and I see that it now groups conversations like someone told me it would, but I haven't yet received more than one email at work yet so I can't speak from experience. Not so sure if they made many changes to fix HTML in the email messages though. I have had problems with it before.

The one thing I did notice was InfoPath. I've never actually used it, but I saw that Office 2010 installs two versions of it, so I decided to open one to take a brief look and it actually looks really imbo.

I also installed this at work

Heres the link to get the public beta btw

I miss the nice blue that was all through 2007, outlook just looks ugly really, hope they change the visuals a bit before release

Im pretty sure that 2010 opens and runs faster than 2007 as well.