yeah Google is teaming up with SUN Java!! lets see how that will go. I believe Microsoft if feeling that the ground beneath them is moving slowly. They still have the majority of the market shares, but till when?? Stealing others code and idea, making it refine is always ain't gonna work!! AOL doesn't care much these days as they know they have got the optimum market, whatever they can get and as far as I know and as far as AOL goes, many of the growing businesses do use AOL to communicate within the team or so. Microsoft is getting teamed up with yahoo looking at their own benifit. If they bring yahoo their side, they will have one less giant to compete with but for how long microsoft will continue to monopolize (they don't say they are but we all know the truth) the market??