Windows 7: Microsoft lifts restrictions on the volume of downloads
Microsoft has reserved a launch with great fanfare for the first public beta of its new operating system Windows 7 at the CES 2009, which ended Sunday evening. But he did not anticipate that its servers would not face an influx of requests for downloads. Just after the availability of Windows 7 on Microsoft.com, the service was already saturated.
In an official blog on the company dated January 10, Brandon LeBlanc, as Windows Communications Manager, confirmed in a hushed tone that “the experience of downloading [of the new OS] was not ideal.” And the publisher will take the necessary steps to fix the situation.
“We decided to lift the limit of 2.5 million downloads [initially set by the publisher] in the next two weeks (until 24 January),” announced the representative of Microsoft. “During this period, you can access the beta version even though the bar of 2.5 million is reached.”
After this period of valve wide open, access to the download of Windows 7 would be cut. Microsoft then plans based on returns users to the beta version of the OS to refine the product before its commercial launch in late 2009-early 2010.
