The TechNet servers, however, have been overwhelmed by demand and are returning errors or refusing to load pages.
Around 11:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, Microsoft launched the beta on this page of Springboard Series, a section of TechNet dedicated to enterprise administrators and other IT workers.
Repeated attempts by Computerworld to download both the 32- and 64-bit English versions of the beta were stymied, however, by "Server is too busy" error messages or half-loaded pages that simply stalled.
