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By Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 22 July 2009 10:07
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Microsoft’s “Windows Team Blog” and one of its bloggers, Brandon LeBlanc have previously announced that Win seven RTM will come in “late July”, but now there’s additional detail on exactly when different groups of people can officially get their hands on RTM code. Read on!
Windows 7 will officially reach RTM status sometime over the next few days, with little over a week to go before July ends and we reach August, and now we know when OEMs, TechNet and MSDN members, volume licensing customers and the general public can expect to get it.
While there are people out there who couldn’t give two hoots about what Microsoft is doing, preferring instead different operating systems and other non-Microsoft software, there’s no denying that Windows seven has so far been Microsoft’s most successful unreleased operating system nevertheless.
The world is but to see just how much this early success translates into rapidly growing Windows seven market share,
Office 2007 License, at the expense of Vista and XP, but so far it’s looking good, and we’re still not officially at RTM.
This week or next, that will change,
Microsoft Office 2010 Pro, and finally, official RTM copies of Windows seven will start firing up all over the place, replacing the Win seven 7100 RC and all those pre-RTM builds, whether with officially or unofficially sourced RTM code.
Microsoft’s Windows Team Blog brings the news that OEMs will get access to RTM code “approximately 2 days” after RTM code goes gold, so they can start testing PC configurations in preparation for the October 22 general availability timeline.
ISV, IHV, TechNet, Connect and MSDN members can officially start downloading Windows seven RTM from August 6th, just a little over two weeks from today,
Buy Windows 7, although this is the English-language RTM only, other languages will come October 1st.
Volume License (VL) customers with an existing Software Assurance (SA) license can download RTM code a day later on August 7th,
Office Ultimate 2007, but those VL customers without an SA license will have to wait until September 1 before they can get access.
Microsoft Partner Program Gold/Certified Members can use the Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) Portal to download RTM on August 16th.
Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers need to wait until August 23rd before they can officially start downloading.
So, what about beta testers,
Microsoft Office Standard 2010, enthusiasts and consumers? Please read on to web page 2.