November 16, 2006
AIM 6.0 Released
I've gotta say that I was impressed with AIM Pro, which came out just a couple of months ago, but 6.0 doesn't seem to have a lot of new features. Nuno at 21 Talks says that there's the ability to send messages to offline users, and a dashboard for managing mobile alerts and forwarding instant messages to cell phones.
I'll be honest, I don't know how AIM 6.0 compares with AIM Pro 1.1, but the latter's desktop sharing feature was really impressive, despite being a bit buggy and slow at times. (Though I ran it on a desktop and laptop simultaneously, both of which used a Wi-Fi connection.) Not sure, either, how either release factors into AOL's plans, but they have been reinventing themselves. First, they'd announced coast-to-coast broadband Internet service in the US, leaving their dialup model. Then they started selling off their European Internet provider divisions. More recently, they've decided to a leave a subscription model and are steering towards an ad-based model of operating, thus laying off many workers.
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