With the relaese of the new Microsoft Software Factory Initiative team blog and the post "Software Factories 2.0" from Jack Greenfield is the Software Factories Initative back again [never went a way actually...].
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Ayway, below a must watch video on channel 9 if you are interested in the S+S Blueprints thing Jack talks about...
"Another important goal is integrating Software Factories with Software-plus-Services (S+S) Blueprints"
http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=353740