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On the web page, it looks like there is no current development in the old style .doc.
I am not currently interested in the XML based formats, as I don’t control the client side.
The excel support seems to be much better.
If you are looking for programmatically reading or writing doc files, I believe you’re better of with remoting OpenOffice or StarOffice. We’ve done this at a former company, even though it’s a pretty heavy solution, it worked quite well. OpenOffice has (right after Word) a very good doc-Support. For remoting it’s a lot better than Word itself. At said company we (earlier) used to remotecontrol Word with frequent problems because Word (on saving a document) insisted on displaying a warning dialog from time to time. Bad idea on a server deep down in some datacenter with nobody close to it.
As this was a Java shop, the very good OpenOffice support for Java came in handy. In fact, they even used to bundle the commercial version StarOffice and had some very good contacts at and help from Sun.
Disclaimer: As andHapp and alepuzio said, POI is very good in Excel support and I’m using it with big success. Last time I’ve seen the doc support, I didn’t dare using it in production (for customers). I haven’t looked at doc support for at least two years.