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Microsoft has closed the door on its Windows 7 beta test programme and is no longer allowing new downloads.
A notice on the site says anyone in the middle of an interrupted download would be allowed to finish and that members of the company's MSDN and Technet services would still be able to gain access, but the rest of the world was shut out.
Originally limited to just 2.5 million users, Redmond lifted the cap after unprecedented demand for the beta.
Microsoft isn't saying how many of the fully functional beta operating systems were actually downloaded but we'd bet it's a pretty big number. Add to that the amount of times it has been distributed outside of Microsoft's legal download framework, on P2P networks and through good old disk swapping and it will be an exponentially bigger number.
Now all Microsoft has to do is collect the data from those millions of unpaid testers and, if the software behemoth actually listens to its users this time, we may even end up with a half decent operating system. Miracles do happen.
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