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It all started when I visited AIM.com. I'm never satisfied with the current version of anything. I'd always rather have a beta with 3,767 bugs over a gold release with 3,765 bugs that people all download on the same release date. There is something exciting about beta software. You feel like you are part of the development process. Although, after spending three years as a beta tester for America Online, I can confess that I never was a part of the development process. I must however admit that I was offered a free satellite dish, tried the first "smart card" for shopping online which involved a microchip and a microphone.

America Online's proprietary messaging software, AOL Instant Messenger, is working on stepping up with the rest of tech. Instead of the gloomy Windows 95 GUI that it has operated on for the last God-knows-how-many-years, it is going for a fresher, cleaner, more sleek, more "Windows Vista" look. Could this be one of the biggest applications designed for Vista? The current build supports 98SE-XP so it is definitely 32-bit oriented.

The great thing about the new software is it's integration with Plaxo contact management system. Instead of having a separate rolodex of contacts in each software application, you can connect them all to your profile which constantly manages them all. I haven't investigated how it all works, but I'm sure it's some amazing technology only "As Seen on TV."

Although I haven't had too much of a chance to break in the new software, it definitely blows doors off of AIM 5.9. So, if you're interested in checking out the new version of AOL Instant Messenger, AIM 0.6.17, check it out and tell me what you think.

posted by mindtron on Tuesday, October 04, 2005

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