Windows 7 Official Public Beta

[DomZ]

You'd think of all the companies in the world, Microsoft would be the one prepared for such a huge amount of traffic. But I guess even giants falter sometimes.

This happens everytime I major beta is released by them. I hate that its limited to 2.5m keys, it's making me paranoid.

[Digitalx]

I think it may be easier just to fork over some money for TechNet Plus and get it that way :laugh:

Haha, Don't count on it man, different boxes same network you'll still only get barely dial up or network drop out speeds. ;)

[MrChainsaw]

Someone write a program for us presing F5 every 30 secs.

[Darkness Muta]

I have to go to class soon.. who's gonna take over my ctrl-f5 shift? :laugh:

Just do the quarter and tape trick.

[nilsHaus]

they're not gonna ip ban people who refresh too often right :D

[Griffin]

probably... would be easier with tech net plus or an MSDN

[Popcorned1]

I can load the error page instantly now.

[Erland]

Someone write a program for us presing F5 every 30 secs.

Opera allows you to set the increments you want between automatic refreshes

[DomZ]

I managed to get to entering personal details, then a wonderful Server Busy message.

[Hurmoth]

Haha, Don't count on it man, different boxes same network you'll still only get barely dial up or network drop out speeds. ;)

My boss has TechNet and is downloading at 533Kbps right now. Faster than what I'm doing, which is nothing since I can't get the site to work :p So yeah, it would be faster.

[scratch42069]

Vista's public beta was limited too but almost everyone managed to get it, despite microsoft.com being hammered.

[Dane]

I'm going to LOL later on when every "recent forum posts" on the main page is filled with Win 7 stuff haha.

[Crazysah]

Getting hammered like I have never seen before. I thought they would have been prepared for this. Oh well.

I gotta keep on trying. At least it did not come at 1:30 Am for me!

[markyl85]

i managed to fill out the form and got a verifation email!

[+Gary7 Subscriber²]

I have to go to class soon.. who's gonna take over my ctrl-f5 shift? :laugh:

It won't be ready for download until 12:00PM Pacific Standard Time which means 3:00PM Eastern Standard Time.

[underbite]

I am hoping they release it at 11 PST. I will be at work by 12.

[Digitalx]

Vista CPP program still had over 250,000 users i'm not sure on exact numbers but still just as much they did warn after it. "We nearly crashed the internet" so that's how heavy it was.

Now can we get apple fans and linux fans to come in and F5 these servers too just so we can try crash interwebz :D

[Spartan Erik]

i managed to fill out the form and got a verifation email!

So did I, but the verification email link will just take you to "The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day."

[nilsHaus]

likewise, although I got a profile could not be found message

[cyrl]

Someone write a program for us presing F5 every 30 secs.

theres a extension for firefox:P i think its auto refresh try that ;)

[DomZ]

This is where torrent technology would have helped

[markyl85]

So did I, but the verification email link will just take you to "The site is currently experiencing technical difficulties, please check back in the next business day."

does this mean we are regsitered tho?

[jmc777]

I'm going to go outside and shoot some chaffinches while I'm waiting.

[Crazysah]

Even Neowin is giving me, server too busy to handle messages.

[FloatingFatMan]

Great, now Neowin is starting to buckle. Starting to get "Server busy" messages from Invision! :s