I'm sitting in a lecture room listening to Margaret Atwood read from her latest book. Working at Microsoft is so cool.

That's right: Margaret. Freaking. Atwood.

Dave says: "Maybe you don't know how much work we poured into the BDG for SOAP and how thoroughly it was broken, after MS committed to supporting it."

ASP.NET Web services can be used to build BDG-style web services. If not, then it's a bug (I don't know of any).