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Windows 7, build 7600 RTM has been completed, Microsoft announced today. It will be available to MSDN and TechNet members on August 6th.

Anyone else think it’s a bit odd that the final build of Windows 7 is Windows version 6.1?

The final RTM of Windows 7.

Leaked into the wild?

Not exactly.

Some torrent download locations have what appears to be Build 7600 available for download describing it as the RTM Build.
This is NOT the official RTM Build. This version is a copy of the Release Candidate build 7100 that has been hacked to show the build number as 7600. The official RTM Build is still being tested and will not be finished until it is released later this month.

Thank you for understanding.
-Ronnie Vernon MVP
Forum Moderator Microsoft Technet [social.technet.microsoft.com]

This may very well be the final RC for Windows 7. People are speculating that this may be the final RC as well as the RTM for 7, as the build number has jumped so far. “The RTM is expected to be given out to Microsoft partners sometime later this month and launched on October 22, 2009, the day General Availability (GA).”

Note: at the time of this writing, build 7600 is not available from the Windows 7 Beta download page [microsoft.com] (requires MSDN login)