iTnews Australia has reported that there have been slow-downs for Australian internet users as a result of the Windows 7 RC release. There has been a 50% spike in traffic from the Akamai server farm which is believe to host the files for download; as they host and deliver (amongst many other things) Windows Updates. It’s really great to see such a positive take up of Windows 7 RC, obviously they have made a fantastic product but their marketting efforts are obviously really hitting home. From the reaction of the general public, hopefully we will see a large take up of Windows 7 and related technologies and won’t be dealing with any laggards or haters stilling clinching on to their Windows XP machines after a couple of years.

But then again, maybe that increase in traffic from Akamai was just me furiously downloading updates on our freshly setup WSUS servers…we definitely got throttled because of that, Internode data blocks to the rescue though!