Windows 7 Released to Manufacturing with Build 7600.16385
After months of testing, telemetry, and trials and leaked builds and gossip galore Microsoft has finally released Windows 7 to manufacturing. Release to manufacturing, or RTM, is the final build of the operating system before general release and general availability for consumers on October 22. The official sign-off was at 4:40 PM, a quirky time coinciding with the keynote speech at an internal sales and marketing event. For the record, the final build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 RTM will both be 7600, with Windows 7’s RTM build known as 7600.16385.
Microsoft notes that there aren’t many big differences between the Release Candidate and the RTM versions of Windows 7, with the only the changes that were really necessary included in the final revision. Many of those have been highlighted on the E7 blog and the Windows team blog (such as the recent post on the changes to ClearType). These changes aren’t ones most consumers will notice, and you shouldn’t expect dramatic changes in performance, although the team has been making small but steady improvements in performance ever since the operating system first started running on real-world hardware, according to Mike Angiulo, manager of the product planning and PC ecosystem team for Microsoft.
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