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The rumor mill is buzzing more than the purported information that Windows seven continues to be launched to manufacturing. Long Zheng has gone as far as to put an emphatic Indeed on his new internet site:
As evidence,Office Pro 2007, he (and other people) cite the presence on many underground file-sharing internet sites of Windows 7 construct 7600.16384.090710-1945.
A tiny background may well aid place this build number (and also the accompanying speculation) in standpoint.

Start by reading this post from Microsoft’s James O’Neill, written in 2006,Office Professional Plus 2007 Key, throughout a time of equally feverish speculation regarding the ship date for any release candidate of Windows Vista:
Builds from right here are suffixed .16384  (interesting amount) as well as the build date, if a minor change is made the create becomes .16385, 16386 etc.

Now skip ahead a month or two in Vista’s release cycle for another numerology-influenced submit from the same source, which explains the “interesting number” comment from earlier:
The minor construct number … is 16384, which normally indicates a construct we think we may release…

Last week, Larry Osterman, who has been at Microsoft for more than 20 years, wrote a fascinating submit entitled “Thinking about Windows Build Numbers.” The whole thing is worth reading through, but I was most interested in the ending:
For Windows 7, we’ve also seen a amount of jumps in create numbers.  The PDC construct was build 6801, the Beta build was 7000 along with the RC build was 7100.  It’ll be interesting to see what the final construct amount will be (whenever that happens).  I honestly have no idea what the number’s going to be.

We now know the answer to that question. On July 10, a Windows seven create number appears that has leaped to the nice round amount 7600, followed by 16384. To repeat what I just quoted above, that “normally indicates a construct we think we may release…”
But it doesn’t mean that create has passed its full round of tests. Nor does it forestall the possibility that additional builds might follow in the sequence. Impossible,Office Professional 2007 Key, you say? Let’s get in the wayback machine and go back to October 31, 2006. Neowin, take it away:
A source close to Microsoft has confirmed to me that Windows Vista will in fact carry the construct range 6.0.6000. He found this out by receiving a mail with the construct stamp "Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16384" so that ends that speculation.

16384? That’s an interesting quantity,Office 2007 Professional Plus, isn’t it? The Neowin publish was updated shortly thereafter:
Several key Microsoft employees has [sic] firmly stated that Vista has not been introduced to production. The day may possibly be soon,Office Home And Business, but is certainly not today, or tomorrow. There’s still a bit more work to do. Create 6000.16384 is real, but it also doesn’t mean RTM. These days, Microsoft doesn’t have to increase the major version range when building, so theoretically, any sub-set of develop 6000 (6000.16385, 16386, etc…) can be RTM.

Indeed, the final develop of Windows Vista was 6.0.6000.16386. It was date-stamped November 2, 2006 and wasn’t officially announced until November 8. You can still see traces of that construct range today when you look at the details of some Windows Vista system files.
Anyway, back to Windows seven. My buddy Dwight Silverman heard the same rumor about Windows 7, asked for confirmation, and got a flat denial:
A Microsoft spokesman told me this afternoon that no, a final construct has not been declared for Windows seven, and it has not been introduced to manufacturing.

In fact, the latest official word from Microsoft is buried in the text of last week’s press release announcing that Steven Sinofsky was being promoted to President of the Windows division and that Tami Reller is taking on Windows marketing responsibilities, replacing Bill Veghte:
The transition between Reller and Veghte is timed to take place in late July when Windows seven reaches the release to manufacturing (RTM) milestone. [emphasis added]

There’s no doubt that the end game has begun for the Windows seven release process. But the actual date is still up in the air.
Oh, and PS: A belated congratulations to Steven Sinofsky to get a well-deserved promotion.