AIM Pro

So AOL is releasing a new IM client for their AIM services called AIM Pro. It’s targetted for businesses, but it’s still free, works with the regular AIM network, and comes with automatic encryption with anyone else that has AIM Pro. If you’re going to use a new AIM client released by AOL, don’t bother with Triton as AIM Pro is a gazillion times better. There’s no more ads and even integrates with Outlook to notify you of meetings.

One thing it still lacks is logging chats, though it does have the ability to save up to 30 days of history (wonder why they couldn’t make it infinite). I’ve given it a shot on my laptop (which doesn’t even have the basic AIM client) and my home computer which had Triton installed (was really happy to uninstall it) and I’ve got to say, it was a lot cleaner than what I would’ve expected. I haven’t tested its integration with Outlook yet (don’t plan to either), but if you do, let me know how it goes.

Apparently, it’s tied up with WebEx to provide solutions to online meetings and web conferences.


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One Reply to “AIM Pro”

  1. One thing about AIM Pro is that I just noticed it allows desktop sharing (sort of like Windows XP’s remote assistance or desktop sharing on NetMeeting) which I thought was pretty neat. It goes throu WebEx and requires installation of some software which at that point I decided to stop.

    RayAlome has also pointed out that the newer versions of AIM no longer support Direct Connect (Triton and Pro). You seem to still be able to initiate the direct connect with an older client to a newer client, but images you send across appear as an image that’s unable to load in IE. I’m guess this is their way of combatting scripts and viruses that get released through AIM.

    //krunk (^_^x)

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