New Microsoft Windows in great demand

Israel News.Net
Monday 12th January, 2009

A surge in demand for the new Windows 7 operating system crashed the Microsoft website on the 9th January.

In response to demand, the company has decided that the latest Windows release will be available to everyone and has lifted a planned limit on the number of copies available for download.

Microsoft had initially planned to restrict downloads of the software to 2.5 million copies.

The unlimited download will last for two weeks.

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