Time Warner and Microsoft have restarted discussions about forming an alliance of their Internet units, AOL and MSN, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.
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2005-07-06
Since both AOL and MSN's internet units are both crap, I hope they'll be very happy together. Seriously, you could see the quality of AOL, and the userbase, visibly sliding as more and more Microsoft infrastructure crept into their business and they started thinking it was a good idea to support Microsoft.
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AOL users were always clueless noobs so STFU you worthless trolling tard.
Yer, whatever.
Microsoft has NOTHING to do with AOL's "slide" as there is nowhere for one to slide when you are stuck at the bottom of the online pit.
They weren't always stuck down there. At one time they had half-decent nework infrastructure and were just about the number one ISP - and then they bought Netscape but continued to use IE, promoted Microsoft products, used Microsoft in-house and the performance dropped and the customers left.
Do us all a favour and go back to your little Redmond cubicle.
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I remember a time ago, someone covering the affects this may have on Google since they rely on AOL for some of there advertising revenue, and most likely that may cease if a alliance with Microsoft happens.
Ok I found the article here it is:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/22/microsoft_google/
I not that informed on this so I dont know how credible a threat this is but I figure it relates to the story. Discuss.
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LOL that's a good one. BorgSoft, AOHELL, whatever you call it. It's always tempting to bring up Microsoft's existing market-leading/monopolistic products in passing judgement on the Softies, isn't it? In this case, however, it's not so much hell and potential overbilling as it is a potential opportunity for MSN and AOL to combine their products should AOL's portal-based turn around not be enough to save Time Warner's Internet strategy as far as the most recognized Internet services brand is concerned. You can read more on the issue in a comment posted to this page which also discusses the news story at hand: http://www.betanews.com/article/Report_AOLMSN_Talks_Restarted/11287...
