It appears as though beta testers have recently received the following email asking them to check Betaplace for some homework assignments.

Greetings,

This is just a quick note to let you know that there are some new items of content on the Office 11 and Family products beta websites. Please be sure check the downloads pages on BetaPlace (http://www.betaplace.com) and be looking for additional homework assignments weekly.

Thank you,

The Microsoft Office Team

Below are links to the first two assignments, the first one involves looking over the new features that Outlook has to offer, and i must say, that from what I've seen it looks rather nice. The second one asks testers to go through and try out the new features of SharePoint Team Services.

Both documents below contain a few screenshots demonstrating some of the new features the next version of Office has to offer.

OFFICE 11 HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT #1

OFFICE 11 HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT #2

source: IEXBETA

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