Microsoft Windows 7 RTM Coming July 13th

Mark your calenders everyone, July 13th 2009 will be the day that Microsoft will officially announce the Windows 7 RTM. This also happens to be the same day as the Worldwide Partner Conference 09 in New Orleans.

We are likely to see many more leaked builds before the July 13th date, as Microsoft engineers continue to smash bugs and other problematic showstopper issues. On July 13th, all manufactures will be able to get their hands on the RTM to begin testing with their software and hardware.

The Windows 7 GA or General Availability build will come on October 22nd, which is the version that's released to the entire world. The build may or may not change from the RTM stage to the GA stage, it's dependent on whether or not any showstopper bugs are found by the manufactures.