Windows 7 beta available 'til january 24th

[Juanm]

On january 10th both the Windows 7 download page and Microsoft.com were intermittently unreachable despite the "additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties" announced on jan 10th 2009, 03:53:00 . Then a new post was made on win7 team blog yesterday night

I know many of you have had issues with the Windows 7 Beta site over the last 24 hours.
As you may have noticed the download site has been up and running smoothly since this morning. That said, we apologize for the inconvenience that it caused some of you.

Due to an enormous surge in demand, the download experience was not ideal so we listened and took the necessary steps to ensure a good experience. We have clearly heard that many of you want to check out the Windows 7 Beta and, as a result, we have decided remove the initial 2.5 million limit on the public beta for the next two weeks (thru January 24th). During that time you will have access to the beta even if the download number exceeds the 2.5 million unit limit.