Nice video, but when actually trying to use the feature I found that Office professional is not enough.  I guess you need professional plus or enterprise.  As BPOS is targeting Small to medium businesses, find it somewhat odd that I have to purchase or upgrade (at a very high cost mind you) to what will basically amount to the "SAME" software.

That’s a big turn off guys.  I have clients dragging their feet over the costs involved with BPOS and Office.  I am out here on the front line trying to defend against Google Apps cheap costs, and things like this

DO NOT HELP!

I built the demo with Office 2010 Pro Plus. Haven't tested it with Office 2007 Pro, but based on your post, I will.  You said "when actually trying to use the feature I found that Office professional is not enough".. How did you conclude that?

It's true that it won't work with. I did try it to. A workaround, the only workaround is that you have to save each slide in you Powerpoint in a sepearte ppt file and then put it on the slide library. For me this was a big dissapointment, as i was treraly enthaussiast when i first saw this feater. We have Office 2010 pro, with BCM, but sadly enough it seems that we have to upgrade again if we want to use this feature.

Nice video but once BPOS gets up to date with SP2010    kiss that goodbye .. only in the MOSS version of SP

Good catch on the Pro version. I checked and the word is that the Slide Library support is in ProPlus and Enterprise - sorry for not catching that during the presentation.. I'm tracking down documentation on this and will advise as it turns up.

In interesting thread on the issue on the forums: social.technet.microsoft.com/.../402e9835-eba6-4a8a-bf5f-801c15c2e4a7

I am going to bat this around the SharePoint Online team and lobby to expose this feature in  Pro skus. This is the kind of thing that people outside Microsoft can change.

Ok, so I did some testing on this and discovered that's Office 2007 Pro can in fact use a SharePoint Slide Library. I installed it (and verified twice I had the right version) on a clean install of Win7 and connected to the same SharePoint Slide library used in the video, created a slide deck  from the slide library.

However, I was not able to publish to the slide library from a powerpoint deck in Office Pro.  When you try this, an error appears that says "The feature requires Office Professional" which IMO is a bug, cause that's what I have. Just to make sure this wasnt fixed, I applied office sp2 and retested with the same result. I told about 2 million people inside Microsoft about it.

So, while Office Pro cannot publish to a slide library in SharePoint Online, it can certainly use one as a client.