It’s late Saturday night and before hitting the sack I decide to catch up on a little web reading. On a lark I went over to the MSDN blogs home page and searched for Excel. After all, I make Excel add-ins, and who better to find out the latest Excel news than from the Microsoft developers themselves, right?

Holy moley! The top 10 results by relevance are:

• Darren Strange writes about multi-threading in Excel 2007
• Steve Caravajal explains how to publish to Excel Services from Excel 2007
• Joanna Bichsel asks Excel on the Server?
• Wael Kabli explains about Excel Services and Excel 2003
• Clint Covington provides Links to resources about Excel Services
• Sharar announces a new Excel Services blog
• An Introduction to Excel Services, or ‘running Excel spreadsheets on a server’
• An Excel Services coding example
• The Excel Services - Architecture
• And Excel Services – Key Scenarios

(The last 4 were by Dave Gainer, on the official Excel team blog.)

Other than the first link, it seems that Microsoft employees definitely have a SharePoint fixation. I realize that Excel is a mature product and there may not be that much new ground to cover, blog-wise. But you’d think with the release of Excel 2007 this year that there’d be more. Is SharePoint just shiny and new and worth talking about? Or, has Google scared the bejesus out of Microsoft, and the execs are pushing it hard internally? Either way, it’s an interesting insight to where the company is headed.