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03/19/2004, 3:10pm, EST

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Microsoft to buy America Online?

Microsoft is among the potential buyers for Time Warner's America Online division: "Time Warner executives have held discussions in recent months with Microsoft about a potential sale of AOL, The New York Post has learned. In addition, Time Warner lawyers have begun analyzing any potential antitrust issues from such a deal, and to date their conclusion is that there would be few roadblocks to a Microsoft acquisition of AOL, according to sources familiar with the matter."


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Sweet
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03/19, 3:22pm, EST
One lame POS company wants to buy another equally lame POS company. Great, then it just be one Big POS all around for everyone. God help us all if this is true!!!
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Let's see...
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03/19, 3:23pm, EST
an overvalued software provider with a substandard yet prevolent product attempting to purchase a declining ISP...

Not good, but not death to Apple.
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No antitrust issues?
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03/19, 3:25pm, EST
Lemme get this straight, there was this big lawsuit by the government claiming that bundling of IE caused anti-trust violations and now Microsoft wants to buy the company that makes the #2 browser?

Not to mention the fact AIM competes with MSN Messenger, as well as many other software business lines. This would SERIOUSLY screw iChat.

Everyone pray this doesn't happen.
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ITMS
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03/19, 3:29pm, EST
Not so good for the aol one-click to itunes music store.
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YIKES
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03/19, 3:33pm, EST
"Jeepers!"
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Wait, what?
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03/19, 3:39pm, EST
Hello? Nullsoft (WinAmp)? Netscape? FEW ROADBLOCKS? Ohh, bad stuff, kids. Bad stuff.
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Game Over
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03/19, 3:42pm, EST
As Bill Paxton's character stated in Aliens: "Game over, man!"

re: MS: This hog's been at the trough so long now, we can only hope that it will explode from sheer greed and gulttony. Maybe the EU will have the stones and the ethics to chasten the Behomoth of Redmond; the U.S. surely doesn't. Wimps.
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Not so good...
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03/19, 3:59pm, EST
You'd be surprised how many people have those AOL CD's that fly around as coasters, but a LOT of people are still signed up under them!!!

I thought if AOL went Mozilla as their browser then it would help slightly in the browser wars. I'm not so much against Internet Explorer, but would rather see W3C defining standards as opposed to Microsoft and their Active X stuff, etc., etc.
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if the riaa got involved
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03/19, 4:15pm, EST
...and SCO (well, hell microsoft practically owns them now) i could get all my hating done in one company! imagine the time savings!
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GAME.
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03/20, 12:34am, EST
This merger would be GAME for a couple of dozen new monopoly lawsuits.
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