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Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

CONFIRMED: Windows 7 RTM To Be Announced July 13th

CONGRATULATION TEAM !!!

THX MICROSOFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

stun

Wow congratulations Microsoft Windows Team Smiley and everyone who worked hard on this! Big Smile

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

What's left to announce on the 13th if they already announced that they're going to announce RTM on the 13th?

dahat

In reply to Bas

#Jul 3rd @ 1:35 AM

What the final build number will be?

You know you just can't wait to learn the special 4 digits are/will be Wink

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

In reply to dahat

#Jul 3rd @ 1:52 AM

Since MS is fond of round numbers, I'm going to guess 7200.

joechung

In reply to Sven Groot

#Jul 3rd @ 1:59 AM

Aren't they already up to build 7264 though? http://www.bing.com/search?q=build+7264

AndyC

In reply to Sven Groot

#Jul 3rd @ 1:59 AM

It'll probably be 7777.

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to AndyC

#Jul 3rd @ 2:48 AM

I'm personally betting for 7300, 7400 or more likely 7500.

CreamFilling512

Confiirmed by some blog, seems like solid information to me...

SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

In reply to Bas

#Jul 3rd @ 1:35 AM

The RTM and public release dates.

Heywood_J
Trust me, I'm from the Internets

In reply to Dodo

#Jul 3rd @ 6:22 AM

7300 will be the final build number. I know because i just made it up.

fknight

Yippeee! Now I can get ready to buy Windows 7 and then download a third party sidebar app because they removed the built-in one for no reason.

magicalclick

In reply to fknight

#Jul 3rd @ 5:10 PM

??? I have a sidebar in Win7 RC1.

oic. Yeah, it is not really a side bar that reserve the space.

dahat

In reply to SlackmasterK

#Jul 3rd @ 1:24 PM

It's already been announced that 7 will hit GA on October 22nd... so part of that is out, granted that still leaves open the Q of when OEM's & partners will have access, not to mention when the build will hit MSDN/TechNet & the various torrent sites (oh what I'd like to do to the leakers).

Bas
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In reply to SlackmasterK

#Jul 3rd @ 1:24 PM

They already announced the RTM by announcing that they'll announce it on the 13th. And we already know the public release date.

LinWinOverlord

In reply to dahat

#Jul 4th @ 1:12 AM

I'm looking forward to Windows 7, but I'm also bawling because I'll never get the release version Crying

My laptop (affectionately called Skuld) has Windows Vista Ultimate on it and I can't stand to use it anymore, I just wish I bought it this year instead of last March, that way I could have gotten a free Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade voucher.

My desktop (called Yggdrasil) has Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, and frankly, I'm getting quite sick of it. I hope to upgrade my nearly five year old desktop to Windows 7 Professional along with quite a bit of the hardware inside.

And if you are wondering, yes I do have laptops named Belldandy and Urd. Wink

What really makes me upset though is that the university I'm heading to absolutely requires either the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows.

So, I hope that some contests show up in the next few weeks that I can enter to win a copy, but I'm not holding my breath. There were a couple on Ars Technica, but they passed and meh...

matthews

RTM on 7/13, so why not build 7713?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to matthews

#Jul 5th @ 7:24 AM

why 77xx? That's not logic... The beta was 7000 the RC is 7100. Why would the RTM be 77xx?

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to littleguru

#Jul 5th @ 8:18 AM

Was there ever logic in Microsoft build numbers?

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to Bas

#Jul 5th @ 8:22 AM

Of course. They always increment one by one Tongue Out

figuerres
???

In reply to LinWinOverlord

#Jul 4th @ 8:44 PM

"What really makes me upset though is that the university I'm heading to absolutely requires either the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows.

So, I hope that some contests show up in the next few weeks that I can enter to win a copy, but I'm not holding my breath. There were a couple on Ars Technica, but they passed and meh..."

then buy the OS thru the Univ. academic programs from MSFT should make a copy of WIndwos like $25 bucks US or your local equiv.

check with the local MSFT office in your area about the academic programs.

Larry Osterman

In reply to littleguru

#Jul 5th @ 8:23 AM

That's not totally right. The build numbers increment by either 1 or .1 depending on where the build is in the release cycle. And when a build is forked, it gets a new set of numbers - so RC was 7100 but the RTM builds started at 7120 (or something like that). There was also a time in Vista where the build #s jumped by 20 at a time.... Personally I agree with Bas Smiley

KevinB

In reply to LinWinOverlord

#Jul 4th @ 8:44 PM

What really makes me upset though is that the university I'm heading to absolutely requires either the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows.

Depends on your University, but they may offer MSDNAA access for students which gives you access to nearly all MS software for free. Failing that, you can always use Dreamspark to get a copy of Windows for free as well.

Microsoft is very, very good to students.

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

In reply to figuerres

#Jul 5th @ 12:30 PM

then buy the OS thru the Univ. academic programs from MSFT should make a copy of WIndwos like $25 bucks US or your local equiv.

Yeah, I get the Ultimate version for $30 at my college. Smiley Of course I'm still going to preorder for the home computers.

AndyC

In reply to LinWinOverlord

#Jul 4th @ 8:44 PM

"What really makes me upset though is that the university I'm heading to absolutely requires either the Enterprise or Ultimate editions of Windows."

Really? Are you absolutely sure? Because that sounds like a bizarre requirement, given that you couldn't purchase Enterprise on your own. I could understand that being the only platforms they support internally, but unless they are supplying the OS it seems unlikely that it would be a requirement for your own computer.