Windows 7 RTM (Final Version) Coming This August

No more guesses, Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 7 RTM will be release in this August during Holiday season (in some countries).

"Engineering Windows 7" blog made an announcement:

Back in January we released the Beta and updated you on our overall engineering process that will get us from Beta to the Release Candidate. Today, downloading of the Release Candidate started and we’re already seeing a lot of installations and a lot of excitement.

This post is about the path from RC to what we call RTM, release to manufacturing. RTM is the final stage in our engineering of Windows 7, but the engineering continues from RTM until you can purchase Windows 7 and Windows 7 PCs in stores at General Availability, or GA.

Once we have entered the RTM phase, our partners will begin to make their final images and manufacture PCs, and hardware and software vendors will ready their Windows 7 support and new products. We will also begin to manufacture retail boxes for shipment around the world.

Ultimately our partners will determine when their PCs are available in market. If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 7 match our expectations then we will enter the final phases of the RTM process in about 3 months. If we are successful in that, then we tracking to our shared goal of having PCs with Windows 7 available this Holiday season.

If everything goes fine and on schedule, we can expect Windows 7 RTM this August 2009.