Looks like we were right last year on our Microsoft to enter blogging stories, if a little bit out with the timing (we prediected qtr 2, looks like qtr 4 or qtr1 05 might be closer); eWeek is reporting (buried in another story) comments by Bruce Jaffe, the chief financial officer for the MSN division at a conference in June:
“Jaffee also talked up future MSN services on tap, including a personal-information manager service that would provide advanced calendaring; and new blogging services, including blog hosting, blog, authoring, blog sharing and blog searching (presumably using MSN’s MSNbot capability). “