AOL just simply sucks period. If it wasn't for the fact that I enjoy their email format I would cancel everything with them. AOL has been a headache from day one. It has to be the lousiest software ever created!! More errors and downtime than it actually works. And what the hell is with this new welcome screen that doesn't want to load? WTF????? And the new AOL looks just like the old Yahoo. WTF is up with that?

AOL,for dial-up,i have,is only 9.95 a month,and it works great,and its not slow,because my fragmentation,and conmfigurations,and my new anti-virus shield,i bought,attacks viruses,and my computer runs as as fast as ,broadband.

Time Warner Cable isn't a tracking stock.
Its a separately traded entity for the 16% that Time Warner Inc doesn't own.

AOL is simply trying to delay the inevitable, that is that the company is so far behind its competition that is nearly impossible to catch up. Look for Time Warner to unload AOL before the end of the year, early next year at the latest. Buyers for AOL? Well, I think it would be a mistake, but I keep hearing Yahoo!'s name mentioned http://www.newsvisual.com/newsvisual/2007/09/post.html

I used to work at AOL, and they have layoffs every single fall. Always different reasons, but that is how they a) stay like they look profitable or growing enough for analysts, and b) fire people without having to worry about a cause. Some years it's more and some years it's less, but they hire in between. All the smart people from AOL are working at Google anyways already :)

To many people blame AOL when in fact Time is to blame. AOL was set to go free before Time Warner bought in. Time kept changing AOLs business model so that it never had a change to survive. AOL has lost almost 30 million members since Time came in. AOL member 18 years. I know the real history...