I went to the InfoPath Overview yesterday, presented by Shiraz Cupula. It was a high-level overview, which was fine for me because I didn't know very much about InfoPath. But the talk got me pretty interested, so now I'm really interested to try it out.

Highlights:

• Rich forms interface.  In one example, Shiraz clicked “Yes“ on an option, and another section of the form appeared, asking for additional information.
• Part of the Office suite
• Particularly useful for collecting information that is currently going onto paper forms.
• Rich-text editing
• Conditional formatting
• Immediate validation, either against the schema, or a web service
• All input and output is Xml
• Can retrieve data from a database
• “Premier smart client for Xml Web Services“
• Support for digital signatures
• Rich text areas grow automatically
• Can use the form offline, then submit to online backend later on, web service, database, or BizTalk

P.S. I tried to setup InfoPath to be my blog editor, submitting to Scott's web service, but I keep getting an error message, “The parameter is incorrect”, but it doesn't tell me *which* parameter.  Does anyone have this working currently, and want to share their form?