AOL to Replace AIM with Triton

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday April 26, 2005 @07:56AM from the millions-of-chatty-teens-grow-silent dept.

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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Deja Vu by sqlrob · 2005-04-26 07:58 · Score: 5, Informative

Sounds familiar
early beta by frieked · 2005-04-26 07:59 · Score: 5, Informative

It is worth noting that this is still an early beta.
I installed it this morning and had frequent crashes so I switched back to the regular 5.9 version.

Here's a select quote from the betanews forums:
"Why is it that so many small or independent developers give us so much quality software, often without reward, and huge companies like AOL can only spit out this bloated garbage?"

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