Windows 7 beta: brings the MicroSoft servers to its knees

Friday, Microsoft launched beta public of Windows 7, the successor of Vista, allowing the first 2.500.000 people (update: this limit has since been made infinite) who would be interested to download it. However life took a turn for the worse. Faced with this load, the servers quickly fell making any remote loading impossible. Microsoft preferred to closed down everything and endeavoured to place at the disposal more infrastructure in order to answer the demand.
It should be said that this beta weighs 2,4 GB, multiplied by 2,5 million, one arrives at 6 PetaOctets and this is simply colossal.
After the mitigated success of Vista, this breakdown (which should have been foreseeable!!) restates the form of success of the company, that has suffered from image problems lately.
[Update]Things have since restarted. More amusing, well - at least for some, is that it appears that the activation keys that take so long to recover from the servers of Microsoft and that are meant to be different for each user are, in fact, picked at random from a short list that has since been made public elsewhere.