Back in June, Microsoft announced that it is revamping the Office desktop apps for Windows. The idea was to bring the apps in line with Windows 11’s design language, even on Windows 10. In the following weeks, the company began rolling out the refresh to those on the Beta Channel, and in September, this extended to Current Channel users, but only as a preview. Today, Microsoft has announced that it is speeding up the pace of rollout.
This story links to a “new” Microsoft forum post that is just a reposting of the original post, and it’s really hard to see what’s changed in that post. But Neowin offers this clarification:
If you’re on Windows 10 and running Office version 2110 and build 14527.20226 or later, there’s a possibility that the visual update will be available to you. This is because Microsoft has made the update automatically available to 50% of all users on the Current Channel. Meanwhile, if you’re on Windows 11, the revamp will necessarily [?] be available to you.
So I don’t know. Maybe it’s available, I guess.