Historically, never the twain have met. But that is changing with Office and SharePoint 2007. In the next version of its ubiquitous software, Redmond intends to bake in some core records management services -- for those customers that want to use it. On the one hand, this is a big deal: historically RM has been associated with big document management implementations of the kind Microsoft doesn't touch. In theory, Microsoft could bring records management to the masses. In practice, it won't be easy, and I suspect many a SharePoint administrator will simply turn off RM services. Microsoft itself has a lot to learn here, but also, potentially, a lot to teach. Now you can track their thinking through a new blog, where SharePoint RM developers and internal Microsoft records managers promise to post. Worth watching...