Feb 23, 2012
Currently codenamed Office 15, the next version of Office, including Outlook, is due out for beta release this summer. Here’s a very short article from someone who got an early look at it (not many details):
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/23/2818611/microsoft-office-15-screenshots-technical-preview
It sounds to me like they are optimizing it for future Windows tablets.
Michael