Kudo's to the AIM team

The AIM 6.0 team got a stellar review in the Wall Street Journal today, from Walt Mossberg. This is just excellent -- a lot of hard work went into taking AIM from Triton to a new 6.0 client. Great work! (esp since Walt didn't have good things to write about the Triton client - AIM has come along way).

Read the review here.

Side Note: Even though my role is in this area now, I had nothing to do with this. I am pointing this out since the team really did a great job.

"In the end, AOL came out on top. It offers tabbed messaging, a neat way to organize numerous conversations into one window; and "notifications" or brief summaries of messages that appear on-screen when the chat window isn't opened. Neither AOL nor Microsoft restricts the size of photos or files that you can share; Yahoo does. And I had a hard time getting video chatting to work with Yahoo Messenger"

Comments

Anonymous said…

This is great. Walt is not easily impressed and it's nice seeing a positive review come from him. Last Monday Edwin demo'd the new ICQ client. It would be awesome to build in some of the features from ICQ into the next release of AIM as that client really up'd the anti. The flash characters (similar to audibles in YIM but more interactive) were especially cool and also the way the preview toaster bubbles in from the ether. We should +1 before others can!!! Nice job AIM and ICQ teams! :)

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