Office 2010 Beta now available to everyone

Woody Leonhard Announced yesterday that "Office 2010 Beta now available to everyone".
Woody went on to write that "Yes, what you’ve read is true. Office 2010 brings back the Office 2003-style menus. Sorta. You aren’t a slave to the Ribbon any more.".
I have yet to learn what is meant by that, but it fascinated me enough to register and download the 700-megabyte file "ProfessionalPlus.exe", which is now spinning around at 7,200 rpm while I pluck up courage to install it over the top of Office 2000 on my 2GHz 2GB laptop.

Maybe this weekend, it it rains a lot ....