NPGMBR
join:2001-03-28
Arlington, VA
| Highly Unlikely
Microsoft although would love to see its main competitor for dialup ISPs go away, Microsoft is not at all interested in the dial-up business.
An article was published last year that stated that MS was moving away from dialup and concentrating more on providing content for the connection providers. Thus, MS's move to partner with Verizon, Quest and others.
MS is a software company and thats all they are interested in. However, the purchase of AOL brings up a lot more possibilities for them.
Guess we just have to wait and see. I'm a big MS fan and love my MSN but I'd hate to see the two combined. All of my friends and family are AOL users and they hate that they have to carry MSN messenger to get to me but thats exactly why I left AOL. The instant you sign on people are freakin buggin ya. |
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JethroXP
join:2004-03-09
Duvall, WA
| I agree, this is higly unlikely. AOL isn't the competitor to MSN that it once was. And the two systems are so vastly different, that any attempt to merge them would easily take years to complete. Besides, paid subscriptions at AOL have been steadily falling for a couple years now. |
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