Have been a charter member of Earthlink since it was offered by Sam's Club in 1998. Was glad to have the freedom to have my own page, customized my way. Had been a veteran of AOL,Prodigy,@home,Compuserve & smaller BBS experience BEFORE using Earthlink. So I know most of the changes that do occur from time to time dealing with software. I also had worked from home using Earthlink as my browser of choice for some 6 years until 2007. It is then that the IE.6.0 software bogged me down so much in applications that I made the change to Firefox and also to Opera.
Meanwhile Earthlink also incorporated the Firefox software2.0 into its format on a limited basis.
Now in 2008 Earthlink upgrades ist homepage, not to give you a choice but to force ADVERTISING & its links onto its homepage.
I have since change my homepage choice sine Earthlink had taken this step. I also have dropped my former dialup connection & have been on WB satellite first in 2006, then in 2007 went with a Mobile broadband card; which has given me a 3G connection as fast as satellite no matter what city I am in on the East coast. HSDPA is growing & respectable so it may displace satellite and some DSL users in the near future with the WIMAX products rollout in 2009.
The only Achilles heel for me right now is the email, I do use the email services and frankly the webmail is much better than any other service I have utilized. WB never could get its
email program together, AOL was too restrictive and compuserve was too basic. Earthlink is the only one to have its email servers (on the WEBMAIL system only!) in top notch shape for a businessperson.
Now that I finished my rant, let me open Bloomberg & see how the rest of the world is doing...