Windows 7 Beta went live, phenomenal response forced Microsoft to add download servers

The demand for Windows 7 Beta, which went live in the morning of January 9, 2009, was phenomenal Microsoft was forced to suspend distribution giving time to add more servers.

On the Microsoft Technet website, this notification has been posted: "Thanks for your interest in the Windows 7 Beta. The volume has been phenomenal -- we’re in the process of adding more servers to handle the demand. We’re sorry for the delay and we’ll re-post the Beta as soon as we can ensure a quality download experience".

At the same time, Brandon LeBlanc of the Windows Blog posted an update: "Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta. We want to ensure customers have the best possible experience when downloading the beta, and I’ll be posting here again soon once the beta goes live. Stay tuned! We are excited that you are excited!"

There is one clear thing, people expected to get a piece of the first beta build of Windows 7 but Microsoft was not prepared to meet the demand online.

We just hope that the release will go live again so we can download it...next to the first two and a half million signups already in line. LOL!

We will be monitoring when Windows 7 Beta will be up for grabs again. Just visit this blog more often for the updates. We will post a working download link for you. That is a promise.

But... if you are really veeeery excited about it, you can try torrent downloading the Windows 7 Beta x86 (Info Hash: f933e6086d45f295fce1a6d291df6847730e414b) uploaded in Mininova about 14 hours ago at the time of this writing.

Update: Windows 7 Beta download servers are up and running.