Microsoft Office 2015 (a.k.a. Office 16): Preview?

Hi there,

anyone know if there was/is/will be a Technical Preview or Public Test of the new Office suite? I'm particularly interested in knowing if the OpenType features (alternates, ligatures, stylistic sets) are also implemented in Excel and PowerPoint, and if true mall caps (the ones contained in many OpenType fonts) are finally accessible (instead of fake small caps, created by shrinking upper-case glyphs and which look ghastly).

Most likely later this year they'll release their beta of 2016. Right now, the full suite is probably still in alpha builds, meaning it's not going to be in the hands of end users to play with for at least a while. If memory serves me correctly, which sometimes it does, around spring time like...March or April is usually when beta builds get released for Office.