Download page doesn't work any more. I believe that MS were flooded with requests well above and beyond their expected 2.5 million test activations.
Don't know if they;ll fix the page or not...... !???@???@!!!
http://www.realtechnews.com/
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Microsoft Gets the Message on the Windows 7 Beta Download
By Michael Santo
Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews
Realizing that they might have created their own monster when they announced that only 2.5 million activation keys would be available for the Windows 7 beta (as I posited), Microsoft has backtracked.
You’ll recall how overloaded the servers were when the Windows 7 beta went live, as many rushed to download it. In a blog post, Microsoft said:
Due to an enormous surge in demand, the download experience was not ideal so we listened and took the necessary steps to ensure a good experience. We have clearly heard that many of you want to check out the Windows 7 Beta and, as a result, we have decided remove the initial 2.5 million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download number exceeds the 2.5 million unit limit.
Microsoft has said it wants several million Windows 7 beta testers, so why it places any sort of limit at all on the download is unknown. At the same time, Microsoft has officially said that Windows 7 would beat the third anniversary of Windows Vista’s launch (meaning January 2010), but it has been trying to pull that date in to this year’s holiday shopping season.
It’s pretty obvious by the rush to get out a new version of the OS, that whether Microsoft acknowledges it or not, Windows Vista was a complete failure. There wasn’t much rush to get out a replacement for XP because XP was actually applauded as an OS.
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