Win7 RTM?!
The rumor finally reached my ears. According to a friend, who read a Tweet by Scott Hanselman, Windows 7 has been released to manufacturing.
What??? Cool!
So what does this mean to you?
It means that the end of Vista is nigh. It means that Microsoft is not the evil beast it used to be. They failed miserably with Vista. Win7 appears to be the exact opposite. They have tried to under promise and over deliver. Yes, I know they dropped some features during the development cycle. But when was the last time Microsoft released a new O/S on time, with a high possibility of success? I’ve sat through at least 6 programming presentations that were running on Win7 beta/RC versions. I never saw one barf. I saw beta issues, but the core O/S ran without rebooting every 15 minutes. And development machines are the most nasty, unstable machines around. I install and uninstall drivers and DLLs all day. It takes it’s toll. Win7 appears to be a very stable, fast, and thin(ner) O/S. It runs on netbooks. That’s something Vista could never do!
What does it mean to me?
It means that I can stop waiting to “upgrade” the Vista installs at the office and jump directly to Win7 Ultimate.
Technically, RTM means that Microsoft has released the O/S to large scale vendors like Dell, Toshiba, Asus, etc, so they can start getting their builds ready for mass deployments.
It means that we can finally dive a stake through the heart of Vista and move on.
I’m supper jazzed. I keep hitting the reload button for the Windows 7 Operating System page in MSDN. I know it won’t show up here for a while until Aug 6th.
What can I say? I’m OCD.
