

The servers have been almost impossible to access for most of the past 24 hours. However, the offer of 2.5 million free Windows 7 keys valid for six months proved so attractive that the company's license and key generation servers buckled under the strain of mass applications. The company initially attempted to provide a unique activation key to each user, with a limit on the number of times the key could be used. Microsoft has begun handing out unlimited free license keys for the Windows 7 beta, after its license servers were unable to handle a huge surge in applications.
