Morning:

Microsoft's value has broken the $500B mark. What can I say??

In other Microsoft news, somebody is actually buying something of THEIRS!

Pretty soon everything is going to be paid for by big corporations and we won't even need to work, or even get out of bed! The free computers are going to attach to swivelling arms attached to bed-frames. You see, these guys will do anything to get you on the 'net so that you can ignore their advertising....

Case in point: Netscape Online, the free ISP in the UK, brought to you by AOL.