MS has release site  templates, and not web  parts.
You can find details about 'em at
www.microsoft.com/.../default.mspx

Some templates are configured and you can see them live at
roberdan.officeisp.net/.../default.aspx

They're site  templates not Web Parts and I'm just finishing up making
all 30 of them available for browsing on one of my sites. Will post a
link when I'm done.

Who's in charge of the web  part division then? Somebody wake em up!

Traditionally, that would be various 3rd parties - Microsoft has never shipped
with a ton of self-developed Web Parts. Also keep in mind with Office 12 (which
includes the next version of SharePoint) scheduled for a Q1 2006 beta, most of
the SharePoint dev staff is hard at work on that...

So it's going to ship with Office 12 and or Server 2006? Will the new
version sit on SBS 2003 or 2003 Standard or Enterprise or do we know
yet?

Curious also if anyone has used SBA2006 in conjunction with WSS. 2003
and what if any 2-way live communication is supported? Will it be like
Outlook and more or less of a one-way refresh street? I'm happy with
Quickbooks and all except that it's nearly impossible to get report data
live to web, which I would very much like to do. Any chance of SBA 2006
doing that?

SPS is part of the Office System and the next major version ("v3") will ship
with Office 12. WSS is part of Windows Server and will ship with whatever the
version is at the time is. I've heard nothing about SBS 2003 or Window Server
2003 support yet - and even if I had it's way too early for that sort of thing
to be made public.