Windows 7’s Release to Manufacturing!

Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest version of their operating system (OS), has passed its final tests on the road to release for manufacturing. The OS has gone through rigorous testing and quality assurance to be ready for the manufacturing stage, and the release to manufacturing (RTM) announcement was made yesterday on the Windows 7 blog. There is also video of the announcement made in Atlanta at the sales kick off celebration.

After being on Amazon UK for only eight hours, Windows 7 pre-orders had already overshot Windows Vista’s pre-order tally at 17 weeks. Microsoft says, “When you can get RTM depends on who you are.” Meaning the general public won’t get their hands on the OS until October 22 but that any partners or independent hardware and software venders will get to see the finished product as early as August 6^th. They are trying to encourage anyone who has been testing Windows 7 to try out the real deal as soon as it is available.

The journey to the RTM stage has been a long one. The first developer build of Windows 7 was released last year in October, a year before the predicted release of general availability. The beta version followed with its release in January and then the release candidate in May. Now the RTM status has been achieved and the code has been sent to start working on new products for the OS to be ready by October 22^nd as well. The Microsoft Windows 7 Team blog says they will be featuring many of the new products as they are released.

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