Due to your interest in Microsoft Office Systems, the Microsoft Office Product Team would like to invite you to complete a brief nomination survey to be used in selecting participants for the Office "12" Technical beta. Completion of this survey does not guarantee enrollment in the Office Technical beta. The Office "12" Technical Beta is currently scheduled to begin in the late Fall/early Winter timeframe. Our goal is to have a well targeted group of testers willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Carefully consider your willingness and ability to test Microsoft Office "12" as your feedback will be critical to the success of our product. Regular and consistent participation throughout the program is expected. If you are not able to commit to providing high quality technical feedback, this technical beta is not for you. Instead please register for the preview beta which will begin in 2006 by going to the following link: If you are selected as a Technical beta tester, you will be asked to: . Download Office "12" software and related information . Participate in private beta newsgroups . Submit bug reports online . Complete periodic surveys to share your input on various technical issues

Note: Participation in the Office "12" Technical beta does not guarantee gratuity to all participants who are accepted. For example, copies of Office 12 final product are not automatically distributed to all participants at the end of the technical beta. This program is a volunteer effort by participants for the mutual benefit of you/your organization and the Microsoft Office team to enable feedback on your testing of 'real world' usage scenarios, and improvement of the final product. Please do not contact us regarding the status of your nomination. Simply complete the nomination form and you will be contacted if you are chosen to participate in the Technical Beta. Thank You, Office Customer/Partner Team