How did I miss this?

Seems like Microsoft has purchased the intellectual property behind SoftArtisans Officewriter product. If you've never used Officewriter, you may wonder what the big deal is, however if you've used it, you know that it really does make authoring SSRS reports easier. Now it would appear Microsoft is going to bring that technology in house and fold it into a future release of SSRS.

This will be really big news for the "self service" business intelligence community!!

Full details are found here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/may07/05-09BINewDayPR.mspx