Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program

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Breaking news, in a private chat with a Microsoft representative, a small group of journalists were briefed on the current situation with Vista Beta 2 downloads.

The following extracts are un-altered and hot off the press.

“Demand for Beta 2 has been huge – which we expected. But, we are hitting ceilings on bandwidth. Right now we are serving out product keys 10x faster than we can serve the downloads. Already this is the biggest software download event in history.”

“1. We are pumping out bits as fast as we can. If we pushed out bits any faster there would be a measureable impact for the Internet.”

“So, we are literally saying that if we increased our bandwidth any further there’s a possibilty of taking down the Internet – people might have problems with World Cup viewing, etc”

“So, it isn’t that we weren’t anticipating demand – we were and are – it is that we are at the threshold of what the Internet can bear”

“2. We want to encourage people who can wait to order the DVD. The DVD guarantees you RCI upgrade (as long as you activate).”

And what is that, Microsoft considered bittorrent as a distribution method?

“We thought about Bit Torrent a lot, especially in the planning stages for this. There are legal and privacy issues which unfortunately make that not an option for Microsof to officially sponsor a BitTorrent. I really wish we could do it, but we can’t.”

And what you all wanted to know, how many downloads, well, “no comment”.

So Microsoft are holding out on the numbers of PIDs given and the total bandwidth used, but I have been assured that within a week or two, these figures will be available.

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