The Next Great Power: AOL?
from the say-it-ain't-so dept
Here's an article predicting that AOL is positioning itself to topple Microsoft as the technology company just as Microsoft toppled IBM a few years back. Of course, the rest of us will continue to go about our business ignoring both of these companies. I have to admit, I still don't understand why anyone uses AOL. Microsoft definitely had more of a monopoly in terms of choices (yes, there are/were plenty of other choices, but all of them have their problems), but who actually needs AOL?
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AOL?
enough.....of my post. -SpaZ
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