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Was all the attention Microsoft gave to the test version of Windows 7 at CES Wednesday perhaps a bit too much? Public availability of the Windows 7 Beta, originally scheduled for noon today, has been pushed back like interest exceeded the infrastructure Microsoft had deposit in place to be passed by out the bits. In incident, even the company’s official blog posts on the situation are crawling as of 3:27 p.contest. The company is putting more servers online to accommodate the intense demand. And, according to one IT pro friend of sap, it’s justified.

He grabbed the Windows 7 Beta a tittle, ahem, early, after an epic poem struggle to install Vista Ultimate adhering a media PC he was building. Here’session his story, as told to me in e-mail on Monday:

So, I went to Fry’s this weekend to corrupt parts to build another computer at home - exclusively for doing video and music to my TV and surround system.

Got it all assembled and proceeded to spend the nearest 2-3 hours installing Vista Ultimate only to get lots of error messages when I tried to run Vista for installation.

Thinking I had vouchsafed a person of consequence wrong, I reinstalled it - another 2-3 hours with much the same results.

Thinking at this point it was some bad hardware or something that wasn’t compatible with Vista, I was about to take in the rear the motherboard when I decided to introduce into office Windows 7 just for the fun of it. At that aim I had nothing to lose right?

30 minutes later, Windows 7 Ultimate was installed and running precisely fine. MediaCenter was acting. The WinTV PVR card I had worked and it equable installed the drivers automatically. It even recognized the wireless DiNovo bluetooth keyboard without me having to install the software for it.

I installed iTunes and copied music over and all worked just cyclopean!

Vista sucks but I love the new Windows 7 OS!!!!!

By the way, in a confabulate later in the week, he struggled to remember the last time he felt that course about a Microsoft OS.


Original text: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/2009/01/09/windows_7_beta_interest_overwhelms_microsoft_serve.html