Mega-ISP Update: Layoffs At AOL, Voices At MSN

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday August 14, 2001 @07:33AM from the it's-also-easy-to-catch-a-venereal-disease dept.

rfc1394 writes: "There are two articles, the first article, in today's Washington Post, mentioned that AOL, having successfully digested Time Warner, is producing results of that digestion by additionally extruding almost 1,000 people in layoffs due to an anemic advertising market and a need to meet projected revenue goals of about $40 billion. A separate Post article mentions how Microsoft's online service MSN is having a woman named Shelley Reynolds create a series of spoken identifiers for its online service similar to AOL's famous 'You've got mail!' and identifies El Edwards as the man who is the voice behind the phrase. The second article also tells about the effect of sound on people with respect to technology, and the payments involved (Edwards reportedly got about $100; Reynolds will receive something under six figures.)"

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Equal rights? by pjbass · 2001-08-14 07:41 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I would think that if this were the other way around, women's rights activists would have been all over MSN. Nothing like a pack o' bitches unleashed on M$. mmmm.
Lawsuits... by _14k4 · 2001-08-14 07:41 · Score: 2, Flamebait

I cant wait for AOL to sue Micros~1 for saying "You've got mail". They'll probably go with something like "You have a new e-mail message, but you havent properly verified your key for your installation of WindowsXP. We are notifying the proper authorities. Please call us at 1-900-444-3321."

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you forgot one by cyb3r0ptx · 2001-08-14 08:20 · Score: 1, Flamebait

What about:
"Error: The operation has completed successfully"

or is that already sufficiently fscked up?