AOL admitts AOL 9.0 Has Curbed Innovation

Spinner (Spinner) [url=http://www.aol.com]America Online[/url]'s David Palmer yesterday admitted the latest version of their software, AOL 9.0, has only served to curb innovation within their development branch and also in terms of competing with other ISP's, reported LirpaIT.net.

April 1, 2005 11:17 AM ET in News,

America Online’s David Palmer yesterday admitted the latest version of their software, AOL 9.0, has only served to curb innovation within their development branch and also in terms of competing with other ISP’s, reported LirpaIT.net.

The admission came after a report was published last week criticising AOL for the general functionality of their software and the ISP’s lack of focus with regard to security related issues.

“The report highlighted to us something I think we as a company have become complacent about. I think it was fair to say we’ve neglected our customers needs and that we’ve seriously under estimated the desire of our user base to have working security systems in place, and I suppose working software in general, that can protect them from the malicious threats that are evermore lurking on the Internet. To think we may have become one of those threats is an extremely sobering thought.”

Source: LirpaIT.net

5 Comments:

  1. Gobbles
    1 Apr '05, 5:48 pm


    Their tv ads tell me I should not only pay 29.99 a month for my DSL but I should shell out another 20+ a month for AOL to protect me while I use my broadband and that I am just a fool if I do not. They claim complete spam, popup and virus protection... So what the guy in the article above is saying is that its all a lie...

  2. primesuspect
    1 Apr '05, 6:08 pm

    Okay, that's one april fools joke that I caught RIGHT AWAY

    Every year there's one of those "We suck" from some huge corporation

    THIS one: I can't tell if it's real or not. It's too ridiculous:

    http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/....ap/index.html

  3. Armo
    1 Apr '05, 6:20 pm

    reguardless, aol is the worst software, next to Symantec (anything) ive ever seen

  4. Camman
    1 Apr '05, 10:52 pm

    MSNBC wouldnt post April Fools stories, right??? sometimes its hard to tell...

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7359659/

  5. Spinner
    1 Apr '05, 11:29 pm
    Quoting primesuspect

    Okay, that's one april fools joke that I caught RIGHT AWAY

    Every year there's one of those "We suck" from some huge corporation

    Well it amused me for five minutes at least.

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