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I think you fail to get that the thing that is failing is NOT the big download. It's the database served pages that lead up to the download - the ones that ask for a login, and provide a serial number. These are at most 400 kb in size - a trivial bandwidth size. And they fail because MS fails to code any of their web pages for large amount of traffic - not because their bandwidth has been exceeded. In reply to: "Where's Windows 7 beta? Microsoft posts, then pulls the download"

January 9, 2009

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Their serial number link (posted in lifehacker) returns a strange ODBC error now. Lets just say - this does not inspire confidence in the set of Microsoft technologies. MS downloads served from a MS web server connecting to a MS database over a MS database connection protocol. Is there any wonder that this is quickly being overwhelmed by a very small number of users. Yes, a couple of million users from an internet standpoint is very small. Could they have competed vs Firefox's world record setting Firefox 3 download day? Not a chance. In reply to: "Where's Windows 7 beta? Microsoft posts, then pulls the download"

January 9, 2009

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