I was able to get an invite to the Office 2010 Technical Preview. I’ve installed it on a few machines now, and it’s quite slick. I use Outlook everyday quite frequently and although it’s crashed on me a few times it still seems to work pretty well.

The Microsoft Office Communications Server features all seem to work pretty well and I can see presence easily enough and am able to use the nice menus above names to Send Email, IM and so forth.

There are some nice additions to Outlook that I think were a long time coming like; an easy view for how full your mailbox is, nice calendar preview on meetings requests sent to you and and more.

Here are two screen shots to show Outlook 2010. The rest of Office hasn’t changed a ton that I’ve seen so far, but I’m just getting started with it.

Showing the basic layout with new ribbons that Office 2k7 had for everything but Outlook.

Ribbons and Inbox Shot.

Showing the neat Mailbox size indicator:

Mailbox size and more