beren - 7:09 pm on Sep 20, 2005 (gmt 0)

Their market share will almost certainly continue to decline. But that doesn't mean they lose money. They charge over $20 per month to millions of customers. Even if they lose 10% of their customers per year, there's a lot of potential for profit there.

Re Google: Google makes almost all of its money from ads. AOL is a big source of that revenue. If AOL started showing Yahoo ads or ads from a future Microsoft service, that would be a blow to Google.