AOL to Replace AIM with Triton

An anonymous reader writes "BetaNews is reporting that AOL has begun beta testing a replacement for its AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) software. Triton has an entirely new user interface that adds highly anticipated features including tabbed messaging and logging. The client will also be open to third party plug-ins." From the article: "It is no coincidence that AOL is fielding so many betas concurrently. AOL Browser, an Internet Explorer based Web browser; AOL Media Player, a standalone audio and video player; AOL search technologies and AOL's synchronization utilities are all part of what was once a unified communications client called Fanfare."

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Triton.. good.

[Anonymous Coward]

I see everyone touting GAIM and Trillian like they are even remotely comparable to AIM from AOL. This is pretty funny. I agree the latest version seem a little bloated and have some annoying options though. However, it's much more stable, feature friendly, and flat out works the way it should. All of these open source version are terrible buggy or missing features. They did, however, capitalize on the features users really wanted and that's great. There have been addons for AIM that provide this support, but nothing from AOL sadly enough.

It's funny that logging isn't included since chat logging has been available on the AOL client for over 10 years. In any case -- I welcome Triton and look forward to a decent product that finally provides all of these features.

A made-up story of some poor aol sap

[tofucubes]

1. An ignorant person goes into a store hoping to buy a pc for simple web browsing and word processing
2. He buys the most expensive pc and gets ripped off by being told he needs the uber-expensive $10k PC top-of-the-line for his simple web browsing and word processing needs.
3. He signs up for AOL because the saleman suckered him into the long contract
4. He gets home and a friend come over and says "wow, I think this is overkill for web-browsing and word processing"
5. He then starts to update his computer with the latest software from microsoft that's still very buggy and he thinks "wow this new flashy 64-bit windows OS is great but my PC is so slow"
6. His friend comes over and says "Oh that's just because windows saves money on hiring beta-testers...by using real users"
7. He then starts to update his computer with the latest software from AOL and he thinks "wow this new flashy web browser and audio player and IM stuff is so great but my PC is so slow"
8. His friend comes over and says "Oh that's because AOL doesn't optimize thier software to run fast or anything"
9. 1. maybe I'm just playing off the sterotype that some AOL users don't know anything about PCs and are taken advantage of