Microsoft making it free?? Wow

In a press release by micorsoft corporation, they have announced during the launch of the newest upgrades to their visual studio products that the line of "express software" (i.e. Visual studio express ranch of software) will become free permanently.

This move has definitely been well-recieved especially by the hobbyist community who relish the power of Visual Studio but don't beed all the development power offered by the professional and enterprise versions of the development software.

Article:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/apr06/04-19VSExpressFreePR.mspx

and here's something interesting I found on my friend's blog. It is on Google Video:

Microsoft Redesigns the iPod