AOL Updates: Standalone Browser, Search, VoIP

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday February 7, 2005 @10:37AM from the still-building-time-machine-for-stock-purchase dept.

Eric writes "In the face of increasing pressure from the likes of Google and MSN, America Online has opened beta testing for its standalone AOL Browser and Desktop Search to anyone with an AOL or AIM screen name. The AOL Browser beta utilizes Microsoft's Internet Explorer engine (not Firefox's, like Netscape) and integrates the company's Desktop Search client. Unlike Netscape it looks decent from the screenshots and also includes some nifty features like tear-off tabs and zooming." And prostoalex writes "In what could be the biggest VOIP push into US households, AOL will start offering VOIP services, as reported by Light Reading. 28% of online Americans subscribe to dial-up or broadband version of AOL, AOL has 4 million broadband users, and beta testers in the Light Reading article seemed to be pretty happy with the service."

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yeesh - ugly fonts by UTRules · 2005-02-07 10:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So, I'm not using Windows too much these days, but looking at that screenshot I couldn't help noticing the ugly-ass fonts on the menus. Is that still par for the course on Windows XP these days? Are Windows users going to have to wait for Avalon before they can get decent fonts on their desktop? I mean, even my ancient Red Hat 9 desktop looks better than that.