Demand for Windows 7 RC will crush Microsoft Servers


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Yeah, their servers are going to die for sure.

The hype is huge, folks are excited and the expiration is over a year away from the public availability date.. as such, we're going to get a number of folks who are thinking "free os for a year".

Is it wrong that I'm tempted to buy one of the touchscreen computers to play with windows 7's handwriting recognition and multitouch capabilities?

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They will have learnt from the previous deluge of users though, and will re-use the infrastructure that was put in place for the beta. It will go down, of course, because so many people will be trying to use it. In saying that, the DL will still be faster directly for me than using torrents as I have traffic shaping applied to torrents :(

As for the "free OS for a year", LOL, because in the recent email sent out to offer the windows 7 RC, it had a footnote saying:

"Please note: All users of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (including Windows Vista users who have upgraded to the Release Candidate) must do a clean installation of Windows 7 RTM. Please keep this is mind as you consider downloading the Release Candidate as opposed to waiting for the general availability release. "

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Bittorrent is stupid, I don't want to download and upload at the same time, my quota i have to watch.

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Bittorrent is stupid, I don't want to download and upload at the same time, y quoata i have to watch.

People in the US don't like the idea of quotas. o.o

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Bittorrent is stupid, I don't want to download and upload at the same time, my quota i have to watch.

No, the concept of ISP's limiting how much you are allowed to upload or download is stupid. The fact that people in fact put up with that insanity is stupid.

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ISP have to limit or they will loose too much money and piracey will skyrocket, so there is a reason why ISP's need to have limits.

also why would i want to download x64 around 3ish gig to upload around 1.5ishgig so really on my quota its removing 4.5gig instead of getting it direct from ms server and saving that extra quota, anything big i either get it direct or through rapidshare, mediafire premium.

torrents are a waste.

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Well, it did look good on paper, not as good as an established protocol like BitTorrent...but how was it?!

Wasn't much perceptibly different from BT. May be reached stable enough speeds a bit faster then BT. But from my perspective, it was a very limited test. I can download different files over BT and face different conditions (low seeds, large swarms etc etc) but there was only one thing to download over Avalanche.

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I agree dafin, but its worse for sattelite people.

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Get wireless. Wireless is become more common, cheaper (more usage) and great alternative to unstable satellite.

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ISP have to limit or they will loose too much money and piracey will skyrocket, so there is a reason why ISP's need to have limits.

Not all ISPs have limits like that (mine sure doesn't). Sounds like you have bought into their excuses.

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mmm, considering how decent the RC is, im not moving of it until RTM (Y)

I somewhat doubt we will see many more leaks until RTM... I mean we're already two weeks past the RC1 build date and still nothing on any newer build...

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One of our Microsoft Partners said that hackers can tamper with builds and put them on torrent websites, so I just wouldn't trust torrent websites ;) Microsoft's official website will have a build which hasn't been tampered with for sure.

Aside from obvious blurry legal issues with torrent sites that Microsoft does not want to get involved in, they do it to protect users. Put yourself in Microsoft's shoes. Say the do allow other sites to host the download. Someone could get a hold of the RC, hack it and put malicious code in it, then post it back up for others to download. At this point angry people will come at Microsoft for letting them download harmful copies of their OS. MSFT will then get blamed for problems people have as a result of hacked versions.

I am glad to see the eagerness people have around the RC. I'm guessing like the Beta there will be a huge demand for the RC; sit tight as there is plenty of time to download and use the RC :)

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Aside from obvious blurry legal issues with torrent sites that Microsoft does not want to get involved in, they do it to protect users. Put yourself in Microsoft's shoes. Say the do allow other sites to host the download. Someone could get a hold of the RC, hack it and put malicious code in it, then post it back up for others to download. At this point angry people will come at Microsoft for letting them download harmful copies of their OS. MSFT will then get blamed for problems people have as a result of hacked versions.

You either really did not get it, or don't know how torrents work. Surprising for someone from the "Windows Outreach Team".

If Microsoft serves you with the torrent file, the hash and tracker address in it will be enough to guarantee you will get an untampered 100% oficial file, even if you're only connected to Chinese peers. Nobody ever said anything about "allowing other sites to host the download".

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Aside from obvious blurry legal issues with torrent sites that Microsoft does not want to get involved in, they do it to protect users. Put yourself in Microsoft's shoes. Say the do allow other sites to host the download. Someone could get a hold of the RC, hack it and put malicious code in it, then post it back up for others to download. At this point angry people will come at Microsoft for letting them download harmful copies of their OS. MSFT will then get blamed for problems people have as a result of hacked versions.

Your on the windows outreach team and you actually believe that? Have you heard of a little company by the name of Activision/Blizzard? They just so happen to distribute all of their software patches for a game you may have heard of...World of Warcraft. Now do you see people complaining about malicious hacked world of warcraft patches? It only has a userbase of 10+ million players...

You don't seem to understand how torrents work. If MS was distributing the torrent there would be no way for a person to do what you claimed. The only way for that to happen would be for someone to download the torrent from a site hosting a fake one to begin with...

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Just wanted to say that the rc is up and eventhough loading the website took a while and had to do a refresh, the download speed I'm getting is pretty decent.

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Well gotta say i grabbed the RC at 8AM this morning - I had it downloaded in just about 30 minutes...Good timing imo. Seems that MS may have bought this online earlier in the day to help spread the rush maybe....

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I somewhat doubt we will see many more leaks until RTM... I mean we're already two weeks past the RC1 build date and still nothing on any newer build...

There's also the reality that the RC (available right now from Microsoft) has set a very high bar.

I've already *ejected* Vista 64-bit off my computer and went wholly to 7 64-bit as sole OS (something I didn't do with the Vista RC 32-bit).

Merely being a new build is no longer enough; it has to be better than the publicly-available bits.

I have nothing really against Vista as an OS (remember; that's what I was using, and what I've been recommending); however, Windows 7 is that much better.

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so downloaded the RC great from MS this morning. 700kb a sec, which for me is smoking..

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Yep not a single hitch here either. I downloaded it in Firefox just now took literally about 5 minutes and the whole iso was here..

Now Im wondering whether I should reinstall legit or just leave the 7100 I got elsewhere on here heh..

Decisions decisions!!

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I actually installed 64 bit yesterday just to try it, but I don't like it as much as x86. Could be because of my 2gigs of ram, could be because I had the 2 program files folders :p so I downloaded legit 7100 this morning and going to install it this evening.

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