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Posts Tagged ‘Epic Fail’

I’m a little late to the game, but meh.

This past friday, Windows released Windows 7 Beta for public release. However, due to unanticipated (well, should’ve been anticipated, anyway) demand, the world brought the windows 7 web and distribution servers to their knees. There was a large amount of downtime involved due to the overwhelming load placed on Microsoft’s webserve division.

Honestly, I think Microsoft needs to think their launch strategy, including having mirrors and also distribute through torrenting. Someone please deliver a clue to their main office, please.

However, Windows 7 has restarted the download process and an because of the epic failure, has removed the previous download cap of 1.5 million downloads, and is now allowing unlimited downloads of the beta. I suggest that anyone interest grab one before something changes.

I haven’t personally gotten around to getting windows 7, but I will once I have a machine to put it on. I might put it on my old work computer.