MS & AOL together?

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January 8, 2003 at 5:31 pm #7569

twistedmetal
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This morning in class I donwloaded MSN V. 1.0 because some of my friends wanted to see what it looked like. I did, and I was checking out some of the features it did have, and it has like nothing 🙂 No smilies, mic options, file transfter and hundreds more..lol But it did have this one option, in options under accounts it had something where you can have AOL Instant Messenger and a MSN Messenger account together? I dont understand why so I thought I would ask the experts… (not the a$$- holes at MS who cant find the time to write you back)

I have included a screen shot below.

Any ideas?

January 8, 2003 at 5:50 pm #65155

Jeff Hester
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MSN used to allow you to connect to AIM. But AOL started blocking them. This war went back and forth for a while (remember the Trillian-AOL war about a year ago?), and eventually MSN gave up.

January 8, 2003 at 6:51 pm #65160

twistedmetal
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AHHHHHH OK I understand. I was just figuring like why would MSN team up with AOL… weird… K cool thanks.

January 8, 2003 at 7:12 pm #65159

urxlnc
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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/11-17messenger.asp

January 8, 2003 at 10:40 pm #65157

Nathan
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Those were the good ole days. . .

January 9, 2003 at 6:21 am #65161

OpTiMiSt
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hmmm it was cooolll..but why AOL were blocking them?and why they gave thier service at 1st ??:rolleyes:

January 9, 2003 at 7:13 am #65156

rustedtight
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that was then, this is now.

January 9, 2003 at 7:28 am #65158

urxlnc
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Check this http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/08-09messenger.asp
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