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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidates are now available on MSDN Subscription Downloads

by @ 4:42 pm on 4/30/2009. Filed under general

Nuff said right???

 

Ok may be a little more… Windows 7 blows Windows Vista out of the water for performance and stability. Period.

 

Oh here is something funny if you don’t much like SQL Server or if you were trying to download Windows 7 this morning….

Database glitch causes Windows 7 download server meltdown

This morning at 6AM PDT, when Windows 7 Release Candidate downloads were officially made available for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, it looked like a sequel to that botched release. After 20 minutes or so of smooth downloads, both sites began bogging down, and the situation deteriorated rapidly as the minutes passed. For several hours after the official launch, most subscribers who tried to log on found themselves unable to reach the download pages.

This time, though, the problem wasn’t capacity. Instead, a source tells me, the glitch was caused by a SQL Server database that reached excessive fragmentation levels because of the tremendous surge of queries. How massive was the demand surge? The number of requests to the MSDN and TechNet databases in less than an hour was equal to more than a week’s traffic under normal circumstances.

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