Purchase Office 2007 Speculating over the Windows

The rumor mill is buzzing about the purported information that Windows 7 has long been introduced to manufacturing. Lengthy Zheng has gone as far as to put an emphatic Yes on his new site:
As proof, he (and other people) cite the presence on numerous underground file-sharing internet sites of Windows 7 build 7600.16384.090710-1945.
A tiny background may aid place this build number (and also the accompanying speculation) in point of view.

Start by reading this submit from Microsoft’s James O’Neill, created in 2006, throughout a time of equally feverish speculation about the ship date for any release candidate of Windows Vista:
Builds from here are suffixed .16384  (interesting amount) as well as the construct date, if a minor change is made the create becomes .16385, 16386 etc.

Now skip ahead a month or two in Vista’s release cycle for another numerology-influenced post from the same source, which explains the “interesting number” comment from earlier:
The minor create amount … is 16384,Office 2007 Product Key, which normally indicates a develop we think we may release…

Last week, Larry Osterman, who has been at Microsoft for more than 20 years, wrote a fascinating publish entitled “Thinking about Windows Develop Numbers.” The whole thing is worth reading through, but I was most interested in the ending:
For Windows 7, we’ve also seen a number of jumps in develop numbers.  The PDC develop was develop 6801, the Beta build was 7000 along with the RC build was 7100.  It’ll be interesting to see what the final construct number will be (whenever that happens).  I honestly have no idea what the number’s going to be.

We now know the answer to that question. On July 10,Office Ultimate 2007 Key, a Windows seven construct number appears that has leaped to the nice round range 7600, followed by 16384. To repeat what I just quoted above, that “normally indicates a create we think we may release…”
But it doesn’t mean that create has passed its full round of tests. Nor does it forestall the possibility that additional builds may well follow in the sequence. Impossible, you say? Let’s get in the wayback machine and go back to October 31, 2006. Neowin, take it away:
A source close to Microsoft has confirmed to me that Windows Vista will in fact carry the create quantity 6.0.6000. He found this out by receiving a mail with the build stamp "Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16384" so that ends that speculation.

16384? That’s an interesting quantity,Office 2007 Keygen, isn’t it? The Neowin post was updated shortly thereafter:
Several key Microsoft employees has [sic] firmly stated that Vista has not been launched to manufacturing. The day might be soon, but is certainly not today, or tomorrow. There’s still a bit more work to do. Develop 6000.16384 is real,Purchase Office 2007, but it also doesn’t mean RTM. These days, Microsoft doesn’t have to increase the major version amount when building, so theoretically, any sub-set of create 6000 (6000.16385, 16386, etc…) can be RTM.

Indeed, the final build of Windows Vista was 6.0.6000.16386. It was date-stamped November 2, 2006 and wasn’t officially announced until November 8. You can still see traces of that construct number today when you look at the details of some Windows Vista system files.
Anyway,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, back to Windows 7. My buddy Dwight Silverman heard the same rumor about Windows 7, asked for confirmation, and got a flat denial:
A Microsoft spokesman told me this afternoon that no, a final develop has not been declared for Windows seven, and it has not been launched to manufacturing.

In fact, the latest official word from Microsoft is buried in the text of last week’s press release announcing that Steven Sinofsky was being promoted to President of the Windows division and that Tami Reller is taking on Windows marketing responsibilities, replacing Bill Veghte:
The transition between Reller and Veghte is timed to take place in late July when Windows 7 reaches the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. [emphasis added]

There’s no doubt that the end game has begun for the Windows 7 release process. But the actual date is still up in the air.
Oh, and PS: A belated congratulations to Steven Sinofsky for a well-deserved promotion.