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On Fri, 28 February 2014, at 8:05 am, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> * Netscape (under AOL) aimed at becoming a pseudo-OS on top of Windows. |
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>>> We know how that turned out. |
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>> You appear to be underestimating it - whilst the AOL suite was hated by many of those "forced to use it" (I guess in the late 90's or early 00's), it is / was so massively popular with grannies that it is still available today. |
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>> AOL's desktop suite has certainly not been a failure for the company. |
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> This must be a US -only thing since I've never even heard of AOL |
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> desktop/suite before, even while lived through the 90's and the bulletin |
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> board times (as being a SysOp myself ;-) |
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I'm in the UK, myself. |
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The AOL software is browser, email, IM and ads, all wrapped up in a single Windows application. |
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http://i.imgur.com/bUin2ki.png |
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I doubt there's anyone on this list who wouldn't find it obnoxious, but there are people who are really happy with it. |
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Stroller. |
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