Just ahead of the Release Candidate of Windows 7 shipping to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30, a spokesman pointed out that over two and a half million Windows 7 Beta computers were synchronizing with Windows Update servers before the RC bits were launched.
There are actually 2.5 million users around the world who are using the beta and are synchronizing with Windows Update. It’s a phenomenal operating system.
Microsoft stated repeatedly that Windows 7 Beta downloads were in the millions, the company offered no figures for the public. Interest for Beta Build 7000 in January 2009 was sufficiently high in order to make Microsoft postpone availability for a day in order to grow its server infrastructure to handle demand and the high level of traffic.
The spokesman only mentioned Windows 7 Beta, but obviously there have been testers that upgraded to pre-RC builds, an indication that the actual number of Build 7000 downloads surpassed the 2.5 million mark. Windows 7 RC Build 7100 downloads went smooth in comparison to Beta, and the client is on its way to RTM
