Microsoft quietly released Office 2007 Beta 2 this morning and for those of you quick enough, you were able to snatch it up before the download servers got too bogged down.  Later in the afternoon, official emails were sent and the internet slowed to a crawl :)  So what exactly is available and where do you get it?

There are three scenarios (that I know of):

1) You are interested in Beta software but don’t have any special access to Microsoft’s Beta programs.  You can download the beta (including Office Professional Plus, SharePoint Designer, OneNote, and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) after a simple registration at http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview.

2) You participated in the TAP program for Office.  You have your usual location to download from and you should go there and find out what you can get so I don’t have to violate my NDA by telling you!

3) You have an MSDN subscription.  I’m not sure at what subscription level it becomes available but you have access to download the Office Programs Disk and Office Server disks from your normal subscriber downloads.  I’m not 100% sure what is contained in each but I’m guessing at least the Office Professional Plus on the programs and probably MOSS on the server disk.