We received some news recently about the National Multiple Sceleorsis Society having been chosen to be one of nine global charities that Microsoft will feature in its "i'm" initiative.

It looks like Microsoft is going to contribute a portion of the advertising revenue from the i'm program to the chosen nine charities, with a minimum $100,000 donation to each of these nine groups during the first year of the program.

Microsoft's i'm initiative uses the Windows Live Messenger instant-messaging client which can be downloaded by visiting the site at the "Read" link below. The National MS Society is easily worth helping out if you have the means -- and support from Microsoft is going to help in a large way here.

[Thanks, Annie]