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AIM 5.9 Final ReviewYesterday, September 7th, 2004, AIM/AOL has released their final version of 5.9. It is recommended you do NOT install this. Especially for users at this website that love using AIM themes.. etc But if you want to, it is all up to you and if you like it, etc. Here is an update on the costs... etc The company will charge $1.95 for a monthly subscription to its expanded package of personalization tools, dubbed as AIM Expressions, and offer a yearlong subscription to the service for $9.95. AOL is also selling its animated SuperBuddy icons for $1.95 each, or three for $4.95. Why is AOL doing this? The subscription IM business is part of AOL's overall strategy for revenue diversification to supplement its declining dial-up ISP business. That being said... lets do a walkthrough of what AIM 5.9 looks like... what is new, changed, etc... So we go to install AIM, something new is here, AIM Popup blocker... wow? I recommend you do NOT install any of these 3 items 
So after the installation is done... make sure you delete 2 folders... Go to My Computer then your C Drive, then your Program Files folder, and completely delete these 2 folders, "AOD" and "AWS" Here is the NEW AIM Today window.. a lot larger and bloated :( Click to View Now our Buddy List window, ugly ugly :( as usual/bloated. 
Continuing on, here is what your IMs now look like  
Here are a few more screen shots, some of these screen shots have new features and/or changes... etc Click to View Click to View And a few changes in your Preferences, but not much.. useful, maybe not. Click to View Click to View So this ends my "review" sort of on AIM 5.9. As I said, it is recommended you not use 5.9, and I doubt any time soon AOL/AIM will change these and have them be free once again... though it is not so bad, just, a bad move on AOL since most kids use AIM and are underage and are not going to be paying for such features... and adults using these? come on.. :( If you need the latest version of AIM 5.5, you can get some from these websites, if you want AIM 5.5.3598 (with the security bug fix, I have it, but it is not at any of these sites right now, so you can PM me for that if you want, or unless a website listed below adds it) http://www.oldversion.com Middleman Downloads AimFilez BigBlueBall Topic (Go to the bottom of the first post) |
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