Morning:

It's ony a matter of time now before Microsoft Office is ported to Linux. With all these new internet terminals being sold without Windows, Microsoft's cash-cow is going to suffer if they don't. Microsoft's goal to control the Internet hinges on making Office documents the real lingua-franca, using Internet Explorer and participation with "open standards" like HTML as the bait. Embrace and extend...

The latest el-cheapo Linux box is the PIA (Personal Internet Appliance) from EBIZ. There's an interesting Pathfinder article about it...