hi acarr260, i’m also in the beta 2 program of Biztalk 2006, as far as i know HWS is more or less the same as in BTS 2004, as it states that this feature will be removed in the next release of BTS.
Can it be that your friend mean the Windows Workflow Foundation that will replace HWS in the future?
About the K2 product, I’ve been tolded from some colleagues as well the same story about HW, so hope it will come a new version for BTS 2006 with some good new features.