Microsoft Buys Over 800 AOL Patents for $1 Billion

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[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]I still have several AOL's ancient "Free 90 minutes" CDs. Do they still apply?[/citation]
They make great ashtrays

 

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It wouldn't surprise me at all if a good chunk of those patents had to do with AIM. MSFT just bought Skype. Now they may either control or have license to all AIM patents. They already had MSN instant messenger. So perhaps they're trying to tackle and own the sms-become-IM arena on smartphones. "Why should texing be limited to just cell phones? Now you can send a text message from anything to anything using Microsoft Windows 8..." I could see that being their goal.

if it was for AIM then live messenger just turned into trillian having support for all 4 main IM's

 

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They make great ashtrays

i think you are the only person who doesn't throw away there trash mail