Just the nature of the sefrvices anyway - MSN was designed to be a business oriented service and AOL for the common folk. CompuSteal used to be oriented to the techie and geek types as well as corporate business but since taken over by another company there's no telling where it went. I haven't used CompuSteal since the days of by-the-hour dialin service nor AOL since Windows (3.1) first came out and I miss neither. My first paid services were GEnie, Delphi and PC Pursuit - now all history. -----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric C. Vogel Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 5:31 PM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: PCWorld.com - LindowsOS Becomes Linspire I have AOL and am a AOL-ite, and I am thinking of moving to MSN. It is more productive than AOL. AOL has some strong points over MSN, but MSN is closing the game. You can sync your contacts/calendar,tasks,notes between Outlook and MSN (Or PocketPC OR BIG OR Palm Desktop or your Palm, I forget which) that is right MSN holds all that. There is a Outlook Connector. You have Enchartra Online, MLB at your finger tips, Picutre-It and stuff to make your e-mails look cool all for $9.99 BYOA. I bet no formating issues with e-mail. But hey, if they like AOL, they should stick with it. All I am saying is to TRY it. Thank you, Eric Vogel ----- Original Message ----- From: Russ Blakeman To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 3:51 PM Subject: [CTS] Re: PCWorld.com - LindowsOS Becomes Linspire Eric shhhh!!!! The AOL-ites will come out and drag you off ;-) -----Original Message----- From: computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Eric C. Vogel Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 1:06 PM To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [CTS] Re: PCWorld.com - LindowsOS Becomes Linspire I suggest tring MSN. I am starting to like it more and more and hating AOL more and more....