Friday, April 6, 2007

Announcing AOL Version 10.0?

Somehow, I don't think we would be announcing a new version of AOL on the menu board at Wegmans:

Menu at the local Wegman's supermarket.
Our local Wegmans, pandering to the AOL worker clientele.

This is from lunch today at the Market Cafe (that is to say, food court) at the Wegmans supermarket across the street from AOL HQ in loverly Dulles, VA.

(It's been up for a while -- I finally remembered to bring my camera.)

By referencing the Beltway (495, though it's about 15 miles from here) and AOL, they're injecting a little local naming flavor into the offerings.

Thanks -- Joe

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe,
No reference to Wolf Trap?!?!?  I lived in Maryland for 11 years....caught the local flavor!  Have a good Easter weekend.  (Oh yes, it's snowing in Boulder)
David

Anonymous said...

thats too funny

Anonymous said...

LOL, yep, but their prices are more like 695!  ;)

Anonymous said...

AHAHAHA JOE... are you serious.> this is a real sign or edited to say AOL 8 , 9, 10

Hey... whats the 7.0 Pasta Meal.. lol AOL 7.0 was the best version out there ... I love and still love aol 7.0

Ps... AOL 10.0 on there menu should say AOL OPEN RIDE because there is'nt a aol 10.0 .. Well I guess thats what open ride is but... lol....

Take Care,
Christopher

http://journals.aol.com/cmarlow330/ChristophersJournal/


Anonymous said...

LOL, hey, at least you guys merit some pandering!

Anonymous said...

If is works any better than Open Ride.  I'm there.  Open Ride is horrible.  Time for me to stop complaining and make a change.  

Anonymous said...

i tried 10.0 and went back to 9.1. 10.0 wouldn't allow me to import my favorites. no help from AOL either. Don't bother!
very unwieldy as well.

Anonymous said...

10.0 is light years better than 9.1 or anything before it! What the last person called unwieldy, I call totally customizable. You put the what buttons for what sites that YOU want on the toolbar, you link the e-mail addresses (even non-AOL ones) you want under one log-in - and those are tabbed into one e-mail client window, and AOL has finally added tab browsing... none of those things available on previous versions. The import favorites issue the other person mentioned is a server glitch that usually corrects itself on its own...  I'd actually stopped using any AOL software years ago because it was so antiquated and such a drain on a computer's resources. Checking out AOL 10.0 (aka AOL Desktop 10.0) and giving it a try changed my mind... I think it would for a lot of former AOL users...

Anonymous said...

aol version 7.0 was the best.. It came with the aol radio.  aol 3.0 was nice too because the browswer had the web address attatched to the page to end confusion.  9.0 is annoying.  5.0 was ok a rip off of 4  2.5 was ok too 8 was a rip off of 7. and 6 plain sucked.  I still use 7.0 to this day although now the home page doesnt update anymore .. annoying!

Anonymous said...

Does AOL 10.0 have a personal filing cabinet though that you can retain your old e-mail in your local storage drive. That is very important to me.

Anonymous said...

i hate aol 10.0 it freezes up when i get on so im going back to the 9.1 version

Anonymous said...

10.0 freezing up every time you open it / log-in? Never happens with me. In general, I don't really have problems with its functionality. Maybe your PC doesn't meet the optimal tech requirements... then of course you should only use software that meets that. Personally, I could never go back to AOL 9-dot-anything... I mean, to each his/her own... But for me? To lose tabbed browsing and linked e-mail addresses, and go back to a slower browser?  No, thank you!

Anonymous said...

10.0 sucks     lots of trouble          AOL will not help       the only way I can get my mail is thruwebmail.aol.com   or internet exp. or aol desktop and none of them are as good as the 9.1 which won't work now and aol refuses to help correct the problem..............my mail box comes up blank now on 9.1   icons show but thats it can't tell who sent it....all the other methods work but very slow and freeze a lot.          I'm really thinking about  just dumping the whole damn computer, which would make a lot of family in my house very happy.