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TechNet, MSDN subscribers must wait a 'few weeks' after RTM to get code
By Gregg Keizer
July 13, 2009 09:39 PM ET
Computerworld - Microsoft late on Monday denied that it has finished Windows 7, quashing rumors that the company was about to declare "release to manufacturing," or RTM.
"We are close, but have not yet signed off on Windows 7," said company spokesman Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows blog Monday night. "As previously stated, we expect Windows 7 to RTM in the 2nd half of July."
LeBlanc echoed a comment made by Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows business, in a presentation at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) earlier today. Although Veghte did not reference last week's reports that claimed RTM was imminent, he did say that Windows 7 would wrap up in the last two weeks of this month.
LeBlanc cautioned users against downloading in-progress builds that have leaked to file-sharing sites. "There are many bogus copies of Windows 7 floating around the Internet. More often than not, they contain a rather nice malware payload," he said. In May, people who downloaded pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) just hours before Microsoft released the preview reported that the build was infected with a Trojan horse.
By Gregg Keizer
July 13, 2009 09:39 PM ET
Computerworld - Microsoft late on Monday denied that it has finished Windows 7, quashing rumors that the company was about to declare "release to manufacturing," or RTM.
"We are close, but have not yet signed off on Windows 7," said company spokesman Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows blog Monday night. "As previously stated, we expect Windows 7 to RTM in the 2nd half of July."
LeBlanc echoed a comment made by Bill Veghte, Microsoft's senior vice president for Windows business, in a presentation at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) earlier today. Although Veghte did not reference last week's reports that claimed RTM was imminent, he did say that Windows 7 would wrap up in the last two weeks of this month.
LeBlanc cautioned users against downloading in-progress builds that have leaked to file-sharing sites. "There are many bogus copies of Windows 7 floating around the Internet. More often than not, they contain a rather nice malware payload," he said. In May, people who downloaded pirated copies of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) just hours before Microsoft released the preview reported that the build was infected with a Trojan horse.
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