Woehoe! I have been talking about it today with my students in the SharePoint course and look, Joris points us to the latest news on CRN regarding the new workflow framework Microsoft is going to bring out. Supercool!
The Windows orchestration (WinOE) code, built from the ground up by Microsoft's BizTalk team, is a set of high level XML schemas, .NET classes, application programming interfaces (APIs) and workflow components that will allow Visual Studio 2005 developers create business processes and human-to-human workflow processes.
Microsoft will also have an add-on service available for the Longhorn client and server version of Windows in 2006 and 2007 and will make its fleet of applications including Office 12 and the next Sharepoint Portal Server "WinOE-aware," several sources said.
Can't wait to see that in action!