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To: Stitch who wrote (536)	7/3/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 2025

WebTV outage strikes again news.com Here's the important part: WebTV said an unexpectedly large number of new users have swamped the system. "Recently, we've had a flood of people coming in. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough server capacity for yesterday," said an apologetic Steve Perlman, president of WebTV Networks. ---- I think it's worth noting that WebTV is proof-of-concept for the entire "Internet-appliance" industry. Missteps by WebTV could queer the wicket so to speak for a lot of up-and-coming net-device products and services; conversely sharp execution could fertilize a boom.