Just for some perspective: 2.5million people downloading at a relatively slow 250KB/sec comes to about 4.8Tbps. Currently we push a mere 2.1Tbps across the Atl

Just for some perspective: 2.5million people downloading at a relatively slow 250KB/sec comes to about 4.8Tbps. Currently we push a mere 2.1Tbps across the Atlantic. So, the downloading from Microsoft might actually outpace the combined traffic from the Americas to Europe! No CDN can handle traffic like that. And c'mon, how many times has a Linux distro come out just to download annoyingly slow for the first few days? This is a much bigger launch than a new Linux distro.