One day, 1 million Windows 8 Consumer Preview downloads

Oh my:

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What’s most remarkable is I didn’t hear a single complaint from anyone saying they were experiencing slow downloads or server problems.

At 2-3 GB per download, that’s an impressive performance. By my back-of-the-envelope calculations, Microsoft and its partner Akamai Technologies served up something like 3 petabytes of Windows 8 downloads in 24 hours.

That’s a lot of data.

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3 Thoughts on “One day, 1 million Windows 8 Consumer Preview downloads”

  1. DayTrader$ on March 1, 2012 at 1:00 pm said:

    Heh. That’s what you get when you pay Akamai enough money.

  2. Jarle Nygård on March 1, 2012 at 11:51 pm said:

    I was downloading it with > 1.5 MB (megabytes) pr. second; impressive!

  3. John Barone on March 2, 2012 at 10:40 am said:

    Actually I tried to run the exe updater file (to update a Developer Preview machine) on the first night of availability and got a “could not get product key” message. I googled it and there were others with the same problem. The speculation was the MS’s servers were overwhelmed with key requests.

    I tried the next morning and the the update ran like a charm.

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