It's Official: Windows 7 Goes RTM


Microsoft has announced this afternoon that Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing. In other words, Windows 7 development has wrapped up, and it’ll now go on to PC manufacturers so they can prepare for October’s Windows 7 launch.

According the the Windows 7 Team Blog, the RTM is build 7600. The public beta was build 7000, and the release candidate was build 7100. Microsoft has also announced that Windows Server 2008 R2 has also reached RTM status.

“What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality bar for RTM,” explains Brandon LeBlanc. “Then, it goes though all the validation checks required for RTM including having all languages of that build completed. If all the validation checks have passed – sign-off for RTM can occur.”

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Written by admin on July 24th, 2009 with 7 comments.
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#1. March 31st, 2010, at 12:48 PM.

Yeah..And I am using it :)

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#2. April 6th, 2010, at 10:01 PM.

i used it before :)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ellen Joy Castel
#3. April 8th, 2010, at 2:09 PM.

What does RTM mean? and why are there different values for the RTM, public beta, and the release candidate? What do those mean? (clueless here)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ellen Joy Castel
#4. April 8th, 2010, at 2:11 PM.

oh.. RTM: Released to manufacturing…

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#5. April 14th, 2010, at 5:12 PM.

Glad to know the full form ..thanks for ur research Ellen

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#6. April 16th, 2010, at 2:49 AM.

I think all of you are enjoying Win 7.. I hope I can try it soon but it’s expensive so I have to save up for it…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ellen Joy Castel
#7. April 16th, 2010, at 2:52 AM.

np.. and now I understand that the release candidate had to go through several revisions so it ended up as build 7600 before it was released. :) it is sometimes sad not to be a tech specialist

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