Business Week: AOL vs. Microsoft: Portal Combat.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1999-- Far bigger battles are looming between AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. and Microsoft than the flap over instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or . Microsoft (MSFT MSFT Microsoft (stock symbol) MSFT Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore (Italy) MSFT Multi-Stage Fitness Test MSFT Master of Science in Family Therapy MSFT Macalester Students for Fair Trade ) has singled out AOL (AOL) as its most important rival, and both companies hope to dominate as computing moves squarely onto the Net. The key strategy for both will be to establish powerful Web portals See portal. that are tightly linked to their software "platforms" and Internet services. Business Week reports that both titans hope these portals on steroids will persuade business users to do all their online chores in one spot. |
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