Microsoft has delayed the public release of its Windows 7 Beta download due to overwhelming server load that Microsoft servers couldn’t handle.

Microsoft main website and the Windows 7 download page were unreachable this morning.

The announcement was made late Friday afternoon at Windows 7 Blog.

“Due to very heavy traffic we’re seeing as a result of interest in the Windows 7 Beta, we are adding some additional infrastructure support to the Microsoft.com properties before we post the public beta” the message says.

The announcement doesn’t give a specified time for when the Windows 7 beta will be available again.

According to Microsoft, the beta has already posted yesterday that offer 2.5GB to 3.2GB download starting 3 p.m. EST. But, it was temporarily removed due to overwhelming server load.

On Wednesday, Microsoft has set today as the date for Windows 7 Beta download. Microsoft also noted that they will cap the number of activation keys for Windows 7 Beta at 2.5 million.

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