Although Windows 7 Beta 1 has been making the rounds on torrent sites for the past few weeks, the operating systemofficial release during his keynote at CES. was first officially made available Thursday to MSDN, TechBeta, and Technet subscribers. Steve Ballmer was quite exuberant about theFriday was the big day for the general public to lay their hands on the Windows 7 beta. However, Microsoft’s servers were quickly overloaded and downloaders were greeted with “Server is too busy” errors. Microsoft’s official Windows 7 site is graced with the following message: 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. clipped from www.dailytech.com

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