AIM to die soon?

[dawooster]

AOL just sacked everyone on the AIM team except support. Logically this means that without engineering, without bug fixes, without security, this product will die.

Not looking forward to this.http://9to5mac.com/2012/03/13/is-aols-aim-service-on-the-

Comments

[momogirl12345]

aaaghhh please no ;_; i dont wanna lose it after like 8 years of use. i have NO IDEA what the freaking heck theyre doing with that wacky new aim, because AIM 7 is perfect in just about every way. I dont know why theyre thinking showing as little information as possible in the window is a good idea.

someone just make a perfect aim clone for me of how it was in like, version 5, and ill be happy

[croik]

Wait what?? I've had this same AIM for at least a decade! It's older than my hotmail! Nrgggghhhhh.

[kraigose]

I use AIM more than Yahoo and MSN combined and this is sickening news. I hope someone can emulate AIM down the line on a network level, but since everything is tied to AOL database it's almost impossible to do so.