High demand for WINDOWS 7, a new operating system crashes Microsoft's servers
The big question is whether Windows 7 will replace Vista. Well, will it?
Interest in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7, is apparently significantly greater than the software giant had anticipated – the company’s servers ground to a halt almost immediately they opened for business from developer subscribers earlier today. Now, with the number of global downloads for the general public limited to just 2.5million, it’s likely that the free beta stocks will run out almost instantly.
This is despite the company’s official recommendation that typical consumers consider the beta as simply an experiment that’s primarily only suitable for the technically very literate and those pride themselves on being “early-adopters”.
In fact, however, the high-level of demand has been building for months. Windows 7 has proved itself to be unusually popular with developers, who have praised the operating system for being stable, efficient and more intuitive than its predecessor Vista was at an equivalent stage in development.
An official, final release date for the programme has not yet been confirmed by Microsoft, but the public beta will expire in August. Since the company says that it already contains all the features that are planned, that makes a release in time for Christmas seem plausible. Officially, the deadline for the product has been announced as early 2010. Previous deadline for Vista were allowed to slip, but Windows 7 has consistently been on schedule so far.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/microsoft/4209917/Windows-7-downloaders-crash-Microsofts-servers.html
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