The Web-based e-mail also now automatically completes e-mail addresses.ĪOL's influence is apparent in its new Shopping Assistant tool, which appears when members visit online retailers featured in the CompuServe mall. Current members who upgrade can move their address information from their PCs to the hosted service, Kington says. To make the service more useful to roving Web users, CompuServe 2000 now offers a Web-based address book and calendar. CompuServe 2000 also now supports HTML e-mail and documents, already part of most major e-mail clients. New are search and sort features, plus a tool to help you immediately locate a downloaded attachment, he adds. Many of CompuServe 2000's enhancements center on e-mail, which Kington calls "still the most valuable application online." CompuServe Instant Messenger users can apply AIM-style emoticons and graphics. For instance, CompuServe includes a media player and an Instant Messenger client compatible with AOL's AIM. Several CompuServe enhancements echo those in the AOL client. "Like with a browser, the back and forward buttons are used all the time. The CompuServe client's simple navigation toolbar adds forward and back buttons that appear clearly and boldly, Kington says. Other ISPs, notably MSN, have also garnered an AOL-like persona to compete with the ISP king.īecause many of its new members are Web novices, CompuServe focuses in this release on making the service easier to use. The service has acquired 3 million new members worldwide since its relaunch in 1999, he adds. While that's a change from CompuServe's early role, Kington says the revamping is successful.
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