Microsoft has released the third beta of Office 2011 for Mac to the developers. Office 2011 will be released by end of this year for customers and the productivity suit is under beta testing right now. With the third beta Office looks almost ready for release with some minor kinks left to iron out.

The Office 2011 beta 3 brings new icons for Office applications as well as some new icons for the ribbon interface that Microsoft will bring to the Mac platform with the new release. Microsoft has also added new welcome screen and splash screens to Office. Several toolbars have also seen some minor tweaks making it easier to access various features.

Microsoft has now started refining the Office 2011 for the final release, as this beta release is one of the most stable releases till now. We should find out more about Office 2011 for Mac at WWDC 2010 in June.
[Via MacRumors]