Windows 7 Is Here – RTM Is Official
With little fanfare and with minimal celebrations, Microsoft certified build 7600 as being the build that would be RTM = Released To Manufacture. According to the official blog announcement it states that:
As I mentioned previously, RTM officially happens only after sign-off occurs. What happens is a build gets designated as a RTM contender after going through significant testing and meeting our quality bar for RTM. 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. Today after all the validation checks were met, we signed off and declared build 7600 as RTM.
What I find humorous is the fact that this is the same build that hit the torrents a few weeks back and that was officially being denied as being RTM. Oh well.
Comments welcome.
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July 23rd, 2009
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I used build 7077 x64 as a second boot on my gaming system. These are my specs:
AMD Phenom II X4 940
8GB OCZ Reaper HTC PC6400
MSI K9A2 Platinum 790FX Quad-Crossfire Motherboard
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB GDDR5
1TB Seagate 7200.11 SATA-300 HD
(The rest is immaterial)
I really did like Windows 7 when compared to Vista. That’s not saying much because I refer to Vista as “Beelzebubs Operating System of the Damned” and my god, is it ever. As much as I like W7, I really see it as only a cleaned-up version of said Operating System of the Damned and I don’t see it unseating XP as the king of the hill. If Microsoft had any brains (but of course they do not…lol), they’d fix the compatibility problems with XP Pro x64. If they did that, simply made XP Pro x64 capable of running all the XP x86 programs, they’d bury OSX and Linux under a pile of rubble. The problem I found with W7 is that there are quite a few XP programs that it does not run as well as having that rather odd Vista user interface. Oh yes, although it doesn’t ask often enough to make you want to take a sledgehammer to your HD like Vista does, I still saw plenty of those god-awful “I know you told me you want me to do this task, but do you really?” questions. Remember people, businesses do not want to have to pay money to upgrade to Vista (commercial licences are staggeringly expensive) only to find out that their version of Adobe Dreamweaver and PC-Anywhere do not work AT ALL on the new system so they have to pay more money for commercial licences on those programs as well. We’re looking at over $10,000 here people. Smart businesses won’t spend that money when what they have works just fine. THAT is the key to XP’s success. It works just fine.
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July 27th, 2009
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…followed shortly thereafter by Windows 7 RTFM.