Quick-and-dirty snapshots of Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac

The Mac BU said it intends to deliver the Universal software suite for PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs — Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac — in the second half of 2007.

As part of its exhibit at the Macworld conference, the Redmond, Wash-based software giant has been offering quick previews of Word, one of the suite's components.

Some snapshots of the software's new user interface follow:

Please Note: Microsoft is not previewing Office 2008 or Word on terminals accessible by attendees and is instead offering brief presentations via a projector screen. Therefore image quality is poor.