Windows 7 Has Released to Manufacturing Today

By Richard Hay, on July 22nd, 2009

After all the hype; after all the rumors; after all the rampant blog posts, tweets and other communications avenues over the last few weeks – Windows 7 has been signed off on for real and the code is gold for RTM. It was apparently signed off at 9:56 AM (PST)this morning according to the below video posted from Microsoft.

Other blog posts from Microsoft about RTM:

Steven Sinofsky on the Engineering Windows 7 Blog – Our Next Engineering Milestone: RTM
Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Team Blog – Windows 7 Has Been Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft Press Pass – Microsoft Releases Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2

Congratulations to the Windows Team and everyone involved for developing a great operating system. I am ready to get my hands on RTM now! General Availability is 22 October!

Anyone attending a midnight event to get their copy?

Richard Hay (3358 Posts)

Richard is the Owner of WindowsObserver.com and has been involved in tech for over 25 years. His first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then he used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and what you see here today is the result of the work he has continued on the site since 1995. In January 2010 his community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when he was awarded the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for Windows Desktop Experience. In January 2011 he was renewed as a Microsoft MVP but in a new category called Windows Expert - Consumer and in January 2012 he received the award for the third time.

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