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Cries to open up IM have quieted | |
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| Time: 04:25 EST/09:25 GMT | News Source: CNET | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Calls for opening instant messaging services are fading as the three biggest providers wage a protracted war for market share. Two years ago, Internet heavyweights routinely criticized America Online for refusing to allow competitors to communicate with its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) system. AOL, then trying to win regulatory approval in its acquisition of Time Warner, was labeled a bully and criticized for perpetuating a closed network, to the detriment of consumers. Today, the nature of the debate has shifted and the voices have been tempered--largely due to the successes of AOL's biggest challengers. The most vocal critic, Microsoft, has shown signs of closing AOL's lead, helped in part by the folding of its instant messaging application into its Windows operating system. Web portal Yahoo, which joined Microsoft in its criticism of AOL, has also watched its Yahoo Messenger service surge in popularity and has embedded it throughout many of its Web services. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/14/2002 5:41:17 AM |
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Wait... so integration helps a company compete? I don't get it.
*cough* |
| #2 By 2960 (156.80.64.135) at 5/14/2002 8:45:56 AM |
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I agree with #3. Trillian is wonderful.
The problem is, AOL keeps blocking the damned thing. They do an admiral job of working around it quickly, though :) TL |
| #3 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/14/2002 11:24:23 AM |
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To be really useful they need to make the servers available as well. I believe MS does this, but it's part of Exchange 2000?
But the link to MS's messaging servers is to unstable through our firewall, and I really only want to talk to people I work with daily anyhow. In this fight to get marketshare, all these companies have apparently forgotten about consumers. |
| #4 By 5948 (216.62.218.225) at 5/14/2002 12:11:01 PM |
| Trillian is the only messenger that can remain connected through our filewall, both Yahoo! and MSN get disconnected, but fail to reconnect, resulting in lost message, but the big T works wonderfully! Wish the owners of the networks would make their own messengers work as well! |
| #5 By 135 (209.180.28.6) at 5/14/2002 2:38:25 PM |
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#17 - I'm curious... Where does it say that in the article?
The article states that all messaging services have shown gains since last October, but it quotes active users. Microsoft has shown the largest gain in this category, but Yahoo has been second highest... I don't think Yahoo is bundled with anything, whereas AOL is. "Microsoft's MSN Messenger showed the largest gain, with a 33 percent increase between October 2001 and March 2002 to a total of 6.8 million users. Yahoo Messenger added 24 percent more users, for a total of 4.5 million, during that period. AIM grew 22 percent, to 7.5 million users. " Furthermore MSN was gaining users prior to Windows XP release. So please explain to me how exactly do you substantiate your comments given these facts? I think you should apologize for the blind sheep comment. |
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