Earlier today the Windows team officially signed off on both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 reaching the RTM milestone. RTM is reached after the candidate build goes through validation checks and all languages of that build are completed. Today after all the validation checks were met, the various component teams signed off and declared build 7600 as RTM.
The full official RTM version number is 6.1.7600.16385.
As announced previously, the RTM build will be available:
- August 6th - MSDN, Technet and MS Connect testers.
- August 7th - Volume License Customer with Software Assurance
- August 16th- Microsoft Partner Network (MPN) .
- August 23rd - Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers.
- September 1st - Volume License Customers without Software Assurance
- October 1st - Remaining languages available.
- October 22nd - In stores everywhere.
Here are the file hashes for the Windows 7 RTM build ISO found on Technet:
- Windows 7 Retail Ultimate E english (x86)
Name: 7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_cliente_en-us_Retail_UltimateE-GRMCEULFRER_EN_DVD.iso
CRC: 0x953EFBCC
SHA-1: 0xBC10F09B86DCBAF35B31B0E6FBA7D006ACAAD28D - Windows 7 Retail Ultimate E english (x64)
Name: 7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_cliente_en-us_Retail_UltimateE-GRMCEULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso
CRC: 0x77BE890E
SHA-1: 0x029DCCEDD7691206010F84CE58343405A4DA92C9 - Windows 7 Retail Ultimate english (x86)
Name: 7600.16385.090713-1255_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso
CRC: 0xC1C20F76
SHA-1: 0x5395DC4B38F7BDB1E005FF414DEEDFDB16DBF610 - Windows 7 Retail Ultimate english (x64)
Name: 7600.16385.090713-1255_x64fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULXFRER_EN_DVD.iso
CRC: 0x1F1257CA
SHA-1: 0x326327CC2FF9F05379F5058C41BE6BC5E004BAA7
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