On Monday Microsoft will announce that the 2007 Microsoft Office system products have been released to manufacturing (RTM). This gold code milestone concludes the largest Office beta program to date, with more than 3.5 million people downloading Beta 2. RTM also marks a critical step toward worldwide business availability of the 2007 Office system, Windows Vista and Exchange Server 2007 on Nov. 30, 2006.

Windows Vista build 6000.16386.061101-2205 is 99% RTM only a few managers that need to sign of the code are left.

News source: Bink


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Electronic Punk on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:24
Woo and stuff.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Max™ on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:28
Rockin'! Come on people, sign off the code so we can have it all out!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by minkcar on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:29
YES!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Gboi on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:31
YAYYY!!
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Hurmoth on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:32
Amazing how long it has taken for Microsoft to get to this point with Vista. I bet the Vista team will be extremely happy to finally get Vista out of the door.
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by Chicane-UK on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:39
To be honest if the RC's are anything to by (and the sheer amount of extra content that will be needed to make Ultimate worth the purchase) the Vista team aint going to be taking any holiday for a little while longer yet!
Quote this comment #5.2 Posted by mrmckeb on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:00
Quote - Chicane-UK said @ #5.1
To be honest if the RC's are anything to by (and the sheer amount of extra content that will be needed to make Ultimate worth the purchase) the Vista team aint going to be taking any holiday for a little while longer yet!

Huh? Microsoft will let them have a big break come RTM. Then they'll wheel them back in to bgin work on service pack 1 or the next Windows. Why would you think MS would keep the employees working on a product thats already being produced???
Quote this comment #5.3 Posted by excalpius on 06 Nov 2006 - 19:10
um, because they've only got a month or two left before people actually are buying computers that USE Vista, and they'll need to have as much of the fixes/drivers patched for initial download (or slipstreamed by OEM) as possible by then.

In MS land, RTM means "good enough to hand off to installers for now" (<500 bugs), not "perfect, ready to use by anyone/everyone".
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by ziper on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:32
great. so 1% of making vista = a few managers that signs?
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by Menge on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:05
yep... and that amounts to over half a million lines of code

think of how quick they are
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by vetslimy on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:32
:woot: Great stuff!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by InnerGlow on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:39
Great news!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by DKAngel on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:40
about freakin time =] sooooo bored of xp
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by tomcoleman on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:48
ok so what groups going to release it first to the sceene.?
Quote this comment #10.1 Posted by jimbo11883 on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:10
I can't wait!!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #11 Posted by -Dave- on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:49
EZTV lol
(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #12 Posted by hapbt on 06 Nov 2006 - 13:59
Since when did a product being only 99% complete ever stop MS from shipping it?
IE7 for example...
Quote this comment #12.1 Posted by mrmckeb on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:03
Quote - hapbt said @ #12
Since when did a product being only 99% complete ever stop MS from shipping it?
IE7 for example...

Get off it...
Quote this comment #12.2 Posted by RealFduch on 06 Nov 2006 - 16:39
Quote - hapbt said @ #12
Since when did a product being only 99% complete ever stop MS from shipping it?
IE7 for example...

DON'T INSULT VISTA

At the time of RTM IE7 had much more bugs than Vista 2 months before RTM.
Quote this comment #12.3 Posted by bsquirle on 06 Nov 2006 - 17:42
Quote - RealFduch said @ #12.2
DON'T INSULT VISTA
Wow, take it easy... it's not like Vista is your baby or something.
I think the OP was only joking about it. However, the OP does have a point.(joking)
Quote - RealFduch said @ #12.2
At the time of RTM IE7 had much more bugs than Vista 2 months before RTM.
I hope you're right, but I guess we'll only know this after RTM, when everybody starts to use (or mess) with it...
Quote this comment #12.4 Posted by RealFduch on 07 Nov 2006 - 01:27
I was talking about bug tracker.
IE7 RTMed suddenly with 1802 active bugs.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #13 Posted by sathenzar on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:00
How much will Office 2007 entreprise cost?
Quote this comment #13.1 Posted by CheeseCow on 06 Nov 2006 - 18:36
'Enterprise' costs more because of the epic purple color.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #14 Posted by b0m8er on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:02
great!!!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #15 Posted by awharton on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:06
Where is Office 2007 supposed to appear first? Doesn't show up on Select or MSDN yet!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #16 Posted by tmf2 on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:08
Quote -
Since when did a product being only 99% complete ever stop MS from shipping it?
IE7 for example...


How dare you say anything negative about our sweet Microsoft ! Do you think you could do better ? tTey deserve alot of credit and our money.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #17 Posted by mohan_168 on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:23
DevilsOwn ... guess who will it be this time
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #18 Posted by Huy on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:34
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2052056,00.asp

GOLD!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #19 Posted by yudi_lks on 06 Nov 2006 - 14:58
Nice one
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #20 Posted by awharton on 06 Nov 2006 - 15:00
Office 2007 Enterprise DVD iso was on Select earlier today, but its now been pulled. Not sure why. Seems like Office and Vista follow each other in being posted and then pulled a few hours later!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #21 Posted by bsquirle on 06 Nov 2006 - 15:45
Oh well, i guess one week more or less won't do it...
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #22 Posted by jedimasterk on 06 Nov 2006 - 20:51
Start breaking you piggy banks open and working overtime the holiday season!. You'll need it to afford Office 2007.
Quote this comment #22.1 Posted by rbet on 07 Nov 2006 - 03:16
Or you could just start priming yer intarnet pumps.

I was only kidding.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #23 Posted by MrFusion on 07 Nov 2006 - 04:44
Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

I just can't wait for so many things now... Windows Vista, new drivers for Vista, Office 2007, Nintendo Wii, PS3 (I won't buy it, but I want to see it). Also waiting for Alan Wake for Vista.

I'm even waiting for new PC parts to be shipped to me this week. (My PC hasn't been upgraded since 2002, so imagine the excitement)

Maybe I won't be able to handle that much and I'll end in a mental facility.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #24 Posted by subway on 10 Nov 2006 - 18:11
avaialble to download on select now
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