Managed Service Accounts to run SQL Server Service

Has anyone played around with using managed service accounts for running the SQL Server Service? I am on a forest functional level of 2008R2 and was thinking about how cool it would be to use those for SQL Server. Unfortunately, I hear that it's not supported
by Microsoft and yet I've read about people doing that but would like to know if anyone has first hand experience. Otherwise, if not recommended, I'll stick to the old fashioned way of creating typical user accounts. Thanks in advance!

Hi Scott hi Sean
I see that my first answer was badly phrased.
Let me try to make it more clear:
Managed Service Accounts(MSA):
Works with Kerberos including Delegation, but:
NOT working with cluster nodes
NOT working for load balancing using Kerberos
More information:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/09/10/managed-service-accounts-understanding-implementing-best-practices-and-troubleshooting.aspx
Group Managed Service Accounts (GMSA):
Works with Kerberos including Delegation, but:
NOT supported with Failover Clustered Instances
Here is the connect item:
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/767211/gmsa-for-sql-server-failover-clusters
@all Please feel free to vote(!). I am waiting for this as well.
This is the state of my information today. Feel free to correct me if you know of any changes.
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