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To: micromike who wrote (10316)	7/3/1998 8:29:00 PM
From: micromike	Respond to of 64865

Well I could be wrong about WebTV Microsoft gives WebTV that NT feeling news.com My personal favorite is that WebTV is suffering from a Hotmail complex. Readers will recall rumors that Microsoft tried to convert Hotmail and its many millions of users from Unix to NT, sans success. Now WebTV newsgroups are buzzing with speculation that a similar disaster is befalling WebTV's back end, depriving users of access to both Simpsons reruns and JenniCam action. That rumor appears to derive from two sources:one is the sly sleuthing of my learned colleague at the San Francisco Chronicle; the other is the "help wanted" postings on WebTV's employment pages, which demand both Unix and NT expertise. WebTV says it's all hogwash and blames the glitches on--surprise!--an overwhelming influx of enthusiastic new users. But the service's employees who monitor internal newsgroups are a little more circumspect, telling rumor-happy participants that WebTV will neither confirm nor deny reports of the NT invasion. Meanwhile, over at Sun, a Skinformant normally eager to chortle over NT fiascos has heard the glitches aren't related to either NT or Solaris, and that the real culprit was a bulletin board bug that created some kind of infinite loop, crashing the system. Another pair of prying eyes reports that WebTV has Solaris running on Sun hardware for everything a customer sees, with NT as a workgroup server for internal purposes only. So there are all the rumors--pick your favorite! ---