At present, the browser market is constantly expanding. AOL company is inspired by search engine giants Google so-called "Gbrowser" and gets many benefits and help from Open Source Mozilla projects. It has focused on their own web browsers in a month ago - "AOL Browser". AOL discards traditional strategies and puts "AOL Browser" as separate software. It does not need to be used by any AOL customer software to use, it is a real software. More surprisingly: "AOL Browser" is not based on its own company's NetScape engine, but Microsoft's IE engine. News Source: PConline
Why will AOL use Microsoft's IE as a kernel? This is really worth exploring.