For the last 12 months, Microsoft has focused on getting its flagship Office suite on screens where it’s never been before—iPhones, iPads, and Android tablets. The Office for OS X apps were left behind, though. Microsoft released a new version of Outlook and an official OneNote client, but the core Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps were stuck back in 2010.

That changes today. Microsoft has just released a preview of Office 2016 for Mac, a suite which will include the current versions of Outlook and OneNote alongside newly updated versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The preview runs on OS X Yosemite, it’s free to use, and it includes a tool for providing feedback to Microsoft. Once the final versions of the apps ship “in the second half of 2015,” an Office 365 subscription will be required.

The new apps take the styling introduced in OneNote and Outlook for OS X and apply it to the other apps in the suite. The ribbon interface now more closely resembles the one in Office 2013 for Windows—Office for Mac 2011 was closer to its Windows counterpart than older versions, but it still looked like a product from another company. The apps integrate much better with OneDrive than the previous versions did, and they support the standard collaborative editing features present on other platforms. All apps also play nice with OS X-specific features, including Full Screen mode, sandboxes for apps, and Retina display support.

There’s an Apple event on Monday, so it’s time to run down our list of rumors and hunches so you know what to expect from the company.

Apple’s tagline for the event is “spring forward,” a less-than-subtle reference to the Apple Watch and a reminder that holding a product event the day after Daylight Saving Time begins is cruel. Since this event is likely to be the springboard for an all-new product line, it’s probably going to crowd out most other announcements, which makes this list shorter than it normally is. That said, the timing is right for a handful of other announcements—here’s what we think will share the stage on Monday.

Apple Watch

Don’t be sad, Apple Watch! It’s almost your “time” to shine.

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This is a gimme. The Apple Watch has already been announced, so we know what it looks like and some basic things about how it works. We know it’s scheduled to launch in April, and we have some basic information about what it does. We know it requires an iPhone 5 or better and that it will support Apple Pay even when tethered to older phones. We know the price starts at $349, probably for the aluminum Apple Watch Sport model with a basic band.

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This “MacBook Air 7,2” looks like a Broadwell refresh of the current model, not a new Retina version.

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We’re drawing near to Apple’s next product event, which means that leaks are starting to show up. Today, 9to5Mac posted screenshots from a Chinese forum that appear to confirm refreshed 2015 MacBook Airs. According to these screenshots, the “MacBook Air 7,2” is a 13.3-inch laptop that adds an Intel Broadwell processor and a slightly larger 7422 mAh battery, but it’s otherwise mostly identical to the current 13.3-inch model. It’s a fair bet that there’s an 11-inch MacBook Air 7,1 that has been upgraded in similar ways.

While the source of these images can’t really be verified and it’s certainly possible to spoof these system information windows, the images themselves have all the details right. If they aren’t the real thing, they’re very good-looking fakes.

Let’s run down the evidence in favor of them being real: first, the specs. This Mac is using a 15W Core i5-5250U processor with the HD Graphics 6000 GPU, which occupies the same space in Intel’s lineup as the outgoing i5-4250U/4260U and their HD Graphics 5000 GPU. The Boot ROM version and SMC version values increase just a little from the 2013 model’s, which is normal (the 2013 MacBook Air’s are MBA61.0099.B18 and 2.13f15, respectively). Most convincingly, the build number of OS X 10.10.2 that the laptop is running is 14C2043. The standard build number on current Macs is 14C109. Because new Macs require new drivers and other tweaks, they usually come with specialized builds of whatever the current OS X version is when they’re first released. Those drivers are then rolled into the standard OS X releases in a future update.