America Online does not work on Windows x64 (not AIM, which works fine). This is because AOL uses a special "AOL Dialer" to connect to their servers - and this requires a hardware driver (it's virtual hardware). This is not a problem for me, but it's a problem for all of us. Even if we don't use AOL, millions of people do. People don't care that its an inferior beginner ISP, and they don't care that there is something better. AOL works for people, and that's more then we can say about x64 (right now, at least).
I really hope that Microsoft is working with AOL to resolve this issue. Remember, we want to spread x64 - and without AOL we just lost about 50 million possible installations...
Posted
May 23 2005, 07:19 AM
by
Ryan Hoffman