Windows 8 download page is not loading and crashed my Chrome browser

Posted Date: 13-Sep-2011	Category: Windows 8 News	Rating:
Author: Tony John	Member Level: Diamond	Points: 25

Looks like people are crazy over downloading the Windows 8 developer preview build, which Microsoft published few hours ago. Read more on how it caused the download website to go down.

Microsoft offered the Windows 8 Developer Preview build for public download at 8pm PDT - which was exactly 2:30 hours as of now. Guess what, thousands of developers who were waiting for several months to get a sneak peak of Windows 8 rushed to the download page and started downloading. I don't have any estimates on how many people are downloading Windows 8 now, but there are more downloads than Microsoft's download website can handle!

I started downloading Windows 8 developer preview as soon as it was available for public download. After realizing Google Chrome may take more than a day to complete the download successfully, I installed Download Accelerator and started downloading in an aggressive speed. After about 30 minutes, DAP reported the download failed and resuming the download is not supported. Having no other options left, I started downloading again.

While I was downloading, I was writing few blogs and then my Google Chrome crashed with an unsaved blog. Cursing myself, I re opened the Google Chrome and observed few things:

1. Google Chrome prompted me if I want to recover from the crashed state. I tried my luck and good news - my unsaved blog is still safe in the browser windows and it recovered the entire text I had typed. Thanks to Google.

2. The official Windows 8 page is not available any more. The page is not loading. All other Microsoft pages are loading. This leads to the conclusion that either Microsoft pulled out the page to reduce the load on the server or the page is not loading because the server is overloaded.

2. DAP is still downloading Windows 8. Thanks, I am still on my way to get Windows 8.

(The Windows 8 download has come back after few minutes. So, if you are looking for Windows 8, go get it now!)

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