Microsoft, AOL ink Windows XP pact

[KrispyKremer]

<< America Online Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have reached a tentative agreement under which the AOL 6.0 client will be bundled into Windows XP, sources close to both companies said late Thursday. >>



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I can just see it now. In a year when Microsoft is sued again, their argument will be to to the courts:
But AOL is a part of the OS and can't be separated...

And by the time anything is done, Microsoft will have released their next OS and the cycle will repeat.

 

[Argo]

I think aol is already bundled into win98/me, you just have an option not to install it.

 

[coolVariable]

Not only AOL but Compuserve and recently MSN where bundled into windows starting Win95b (I'm not sure about that, could be win98...)!

 

[ToBeMe]

IMHO there's a LOT more to this than what we're being told......😉

 

[KrispyKremer]

ToBeMe, that's kinda what I think. This probably isn't as important to existing users as it is to new computer users. They want the easiest means necessary to get online, and if all they need to do is double click an icon on their desktop, that's the route they'll take.

If any good comes out of it, maybe they'll finally agree on an instant messaging standard.

 

[MasterHoss]

Wow, I think that's very surprising news since I recently read an article stating that AOL is about to end it's agreement with THE EVIL EMPIRE (maily because AOL is now the EVIL EMPIRE). AOL is supposedly going to stop using IE as their integrated browser and go back to Netscape-->actually AOL told their Netscape bit*#@! to put together
Communicator 6.notsucks together so that they can use it under AOL and release it as a stand alone browser.

With all that said, I would have assumed that MS will no longer allow that damn AOL icon on the desktop. I guess the 2 EVIL EMPIRES are attempting to ride each other. Frankly, I don't mind MS but AOL TimeWarner is just crazy...just think about the possibilities...we might be seeing 10minutes worth of AOL previews at the local movie theater anytime an AOL-owned company releases a film. The same can be said for all the TV stations, newspapers, magazines, and record companies that damn company owns.

 

[Lunchboxah]

Online Services bundled with 98:

America Online
AT&amp;T WorldNet Service
CompuServe
Prodigy Internet

All part of Windows Components under &quot;Online Services&quot;

 

[Quaggoth]

I am sure a lot of you have noticed, but when you tell the 98 installer not to install the online services stuff, it does anyway. F#(| MS AND AOL/Time Warner/CNN. Give it 20 years and we will only get news that is filtered through AOL. Not that the news we get now isn't filtered...... Damn, Every time someone reminds me of the &quot;Media Giants&quot; I get real mad. Look at my sig.

 

[MasterHoss]

hahah...right on brother.

YUP, you have to go into Program Files/Online Services and delete all the crap out to get rid of the EVIL EMPIRE and AT&amp;T (not so evil--shouldn't have been broken up...Come on, they have &quot;American&quot; in their title).

 

[Katana]

You know what is even funnier? AOL and Sony just signed an agreement for the PS2, who MS will be in direct competition with their Xbox.

 

[Argo]

Quaggoth: never happened on mine. It just creates a folder on the desktop, that contains the links. You can safely nuke that folder. None of the aol crap (like their dial up adapter, etc) is installed.