Apple/AOL Partner On Instant Messaging

according to Apple's press release. The war between Microsoft and AOL over MSN's link to AOL Instant Messaging (AIM) has been in the papers for the past few days. Of course, if you have a recent version of Netscape you already have AIM for free and if you think it's a great idea then you are probably already using it and have the ability to chat with any of AIM's 40 million users. The agreement is a good move for future collaborative improvements to this technology. Could AOL be Apple's future ISP partner?