Microsoft have published their "Advance Notification" of patches to be released next week. A total of eight security relevant patches is expected, half of them for MS Office. Maybe, just maybe, we are going to get patches for the various little problems currently lurking in Microsoft Word (eg CVE-2006-6456 ).

Update 05/01/2007: Microsoft have announced they will be releasing only 4 patches on their regularly scheduled cycle. Link here.