July 22nd 2009 – Steve Ballmer signed off the RTM builds for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 at the annual sales kick-off event in Atlanta. This is big news for us all at GFI.
Video of signing: Windows 7 Sneak-Peak from MGX
Congratulations to the engineering teams of both products! I am personally very much looking forward to using the latest code, as I was well impressed with the quality of the RC. The next question would be of course : When will I get it? The Microsoft Windows Team blog answered just that in their recent post titled “When will you get Windows 7 RTM?”
In summary:
| ISV (Independent software vendor) partners IHV (Independent hardware vendor) partners | Microsoft Connect | August 6th 2009 |
| Microsoft Partner Program – Gold Certified | Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) | August 16th 2009 |
| Microsoft Action Pack subscribers | August 23rd 2009 | |
| OEMs | 2 days after RTM | |
| Volume License customers with Software Assurance | Volume License Service Center | August 7th 2009 |
| Volume License customers without Software Assurance | Volume License Service Center | September 1st 2009 |
| Technet & MSDN subscribers | August 6th 2009 | |
| BETA Testers | No free update | No free update |
| Everyone else | Retail stores | October 22nd 2009 |
Read more about the widespread build availability prior to October 22nd 2009.
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