On July 13th Microsoft both confirmed and denied that Windows 7 had been released to manufacturing. The following numbers: 090713 indicate that the code was wrapped up on July 13th, 2009. The full build string of the gold release of Windows 7 is 7600.16385.090713-1255. Fact is that Microsoft compiled the gold build of Windows 7 as early as July 13th 2009, and only made the official announcement on July 22nd. Too-eager-testers had had the chance to grab the gold release of Windows 7 RTM Build 7600.16385 even before the platform was RTM'd on July 22nd, 2009. Just days after Windows 7 was released to manufacturing and Microsoft started handing out the gold bits of the operating system to original equipment manufacturers, the original ISO images of Build 7600.16385 were leaked in the wild and are now available for download.
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