I guess it was too good to be true.
Microsot appeared to be giving a good, well-finished piece of code. For free no less.
But, alas, the Windows 7 Public Beta is not with us yet.
As many have come to expect, Microsoft are no masters of the web. There were many ways they could have avoided their servers not coping with the demand (a queuing system to ensure only those 2.5mill that were there first got a key, using bittorrent protocols (even heavily managed ones like Akami) to allow people to DL the Beta. (As it is, there are already gonna be more than 2.5mill who download it, so surely it doesn;t matter then?)
I think we can all agree that Microsoft need to think more about large deployments, especially over the web. The beta, which is the same "Build 7000" that has been floating around for a few weeks on torrent, is apparently very polished. Microsoft knew the Beta was already on torrent, so surely it would have made sense to publish an official torrent, and just leave their servers to distribute the key to those lucky 2.5million users (whom I hope to be one of)? C'mon M$, the key is under 1Kb, you can do better than this!
All I can say is, a shout out to @brandonleblanc on Twitter for doing his best to keep us informed.
Anyway, I have Ben & Jerry's to go eat (Chunky munky as comfort food for no Windows 7 key =P) so I'll leave you all to it.
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