Here's the reality Lee - There are somewhere between 10 and 24 million bloggers (maybe a few more, maybe a few less - who cares, the numbers are substantial). All but the tiniest minority of these weblogs provide 3rd party tools the capability to hook into them and publish content remotely to the blog from the desktop, handheld or other publishing tool. This capability is possible because of a standards based API that most weblog tools, including Blogware, have adopted - the metaWeblogAPI. Its sole function is to provide third party tools the capability to post and manage weblog entries remotely. The code necessary to support this function inside Microsoft Office is trivial. The code necessary to support this function inside *any* desktop publishing tool - text, audio, video, it doesn't matter - is equally trivial. The point is, Microsoft could easily embrace the entire range of weblog publishing tools, Blogware included, if it adopted this tiny little standard inside Office. And there would be much rejoicing. As far as the feature and template observations you make, I'd tend to agree. I've forwarded a link to your remarks over to the product management team to make sure they they have a sense of the picture as you see it. Thanks for the feedback! -rwr