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What's Missing from the AIM Pro Beta: Page 2 of 2

Group presence People in organizations often think in terms of groups, not users. They might like to query accounts payable, for example, with a question instead of having to ask a particular person in accounts payable. Yet AIM Pro currently only offers individual presence not group presence.

Centralized control IT needs to be able to limit the services available at the client. This includes being able to completely customize the interface, such as disabling file transfer and removing the video portion of the client. None of that is possible in the client today.

The last issue at least should be addressed next week when AOL launches its next beta; this time testing the Enterprise Instant Messaging (EIM) edition of AIM Pro. This client is expected to offer IT centralized management and administration of IM features.

Here's to hoping that EIM will also address the rest of the featuers that corporeate IMers really need.