Windows 8 ESD (Digital Download) servers are offline

Dear community of Microsoft,

For the last three days I tried to install Windows 8 on a desktop and laptop. A lot of calls and countless hours and instances of remote support has led to an escalation of the problem to a senior technical support engineer. I was told yesterday that I would need to wait for the technician, at a specific time window, they do today.
The good news is:
(1) it is not my PC, laptop, Wifi, router, ISP and general location on the planet, who have been troubleshooted, replaced, changed, updated, amended several times. Causing many hours of frustration, fresh (that I bought an additional product code) and finally resignation that I should just stick with Windows 7.
The bad news is:
(2) the engineer of Microsoft Support senior admitted that currently the method of ESD (digital download) upgrade of Windows 8 has been broken, not only that, it has been broken for at least three days for a large number of European and American clients.
Why oh why did take 3 days and many calls and many hours for Microsoft to tell me this? Let me count the times I reinstalled the drivers, services, open ports, disabled ladies virus, removed the firewalls, changed routers WiFi, reconfigured networks, to new networks with different providers of Internet services and re-installed Windows 7.
So anyone reading this and wondering why they see the Windows 8 installation/installation fail along the lines of:
"Invalid data".
"These data are incorrect."
"Unable to connect to the Internet.
"Failed for an unknown reason."
"Download was not entirely successful.
"Download task has not completed.
You need to know that Microsoft's servers are currently the question. Microsoft should also acknowledge this publicly to avoid their clients lose a huge amount of time and effort.
 

You would think that one of first techies to expedite things for customer convience & as economies procedures on both ends would be another server somewhere to help out you with a copy of the ESD on it.   Give you simple instructions for download and how to operate it.

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