Report: Time Warner in talks with Yahoo, Microsoft for AOL deal

Microsoft buying AOL is even dumber than Microsoft buying Yahoo.

I thought Time Warner already did drop AOL. I guess they just took it out of their name "AOL Time Warner".

I don't know why AOL is still in business honestly. They stay in business because people who don't know any better don't want to lose their @aol.com email addresses that they've had since the 56k days. That's literally the only thing AOL has going for them.

How is AOL still around? They're such **** it's amazing they're still in business.

As someone who was a BETA TESTER for AOL many moons ago (oh, if only a beta SHAREHOLDER - I learned again this week that, as much as people always have and always will dump on them, they still get a LOT of folks online.
They picked up our station's story about the Redmond woman with 140-pound tumor, and gave us the biggest two-day spike in our history - on one day, nearly HALF our page views, about 42K, came from AOL. (We also got picked up by MSNBC and CNN
People, especially techies, always have and always will dump on AOL - remember the many "free hour" CD coasters? - but it does still have a brand with value, despite all the bad moves, etc. I also remember when I used to have to pay $5 or more an HOUR to go online! The bad old days, indeed

Yeah, count me and my wife in that crew. Even though we use Verizon DSL for Internet access (the missus works for Verizon so we get a substantial discount) we both still have AOL email accounts as our primary email account. And just for the reason you cite. We've had those email accounts for about 10 years and we're just too lazy to switch.