On Fri, 28 February 2014, at 8:05 am, Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> … >>> * Netscape (under AOL) aimed at becoming a pseudo-OS on top of Windows. >>> We know how that turned out. >> 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. >> >> ... >> AOL's desktop suite has certainly not been a failure for the company. > > This must be a US -only thing since I've never even heard of AOL > desktop/suite before, even while lived through the 90's and the bulletin > board times (as being a SysOp myself ;-)
I'm in the UK, myself. The AOL software is browser, email, IM and ads, all wrapped up in a single Windows application. http://i.imgur.com/bUin2ki.png I doubt there's anyone on this list who wouldn't find it obnoxious, but there are people who are really happy with it. Stroller.
