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To: ayahuasca who wrote (813)	10/10/1999 1:41:00 PM
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Excite@Home Speeds Installation of the @Home Service @Home 1.7 Heightens Subscribers Multi-Media Internet Experience REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 6, 1999 Excite@Home (Nasdaq:ATHM), a global media company and the leading provider of broadband Internet services via the cable infrastructure, today announced the release of @Home 1.7, the latest version of the client software for the @Home broadband Internet service. @Home 1.7's new "self-install" feature allows subscribers to install the software in one, easy step. @Home 1.7 also adds two new plug-ins that improve subscribers video and multi-media experience VeonPlayer and MetaCreation's MetaStream. In addition, @Home and Tioga Systems developed a new "reset tool" that is included in @Home 1.7a self-healing software agent that quickly resolves common problems experienced by users. "As we rapidly growth, we are continually enhancing the @Home service software to speed the installation process and deliver a unique multimedia Internet experience to our subscribers," said Jonathan Rosenberg, VP of product marketing. "@Home 1.7 helps us do it through its "express install" feature. And with our updated set of plug-ins, our subscribers get all of the latest tools for a faster, smoother, and richer multi-media experience of the @Home service." @Home 1.7 gives @Home subscribers the latest Internet software in one place for a fast, interactive Internet experience. It includes a choice of Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 4.61, VeonPlayer, Shockwave7, Flash 4, RealPlayer G2, Quicktime 4, the @Home Assistant, and Tioga Self-Healing Software. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5 represents a major improvement over Internet Explorer 4 in terms of stability, speed and ease of use.