Windows 7 Hits Build 7600 (Possible RTM)

An anonymous reader writes "One Microsoft Way is reporting that Microsoft has significantly incremented the build number of both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: 'Reports across the Web are pointing to a build 7600 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This is significant because the bump in the build number would suggest that Microsoft has christened this build as the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build. The RTM is expected to be given out to Microsoft partners sometime later this month and launched on October 22, 2009, the day of General Availability (GA). The build string is "7600.16384.090710-1945," which indicates that it was compiled just a few days ago: July 10, 2009, at 7:45pm. Microsoft only increments the build number when it reaches a significant goal, and the only one left is the RTM milestone. The last builds that were leaking were all 72xx builds, so such a large bump is suspicious but at the same time it is something Microsoft would do to signify that this is the final build.'"

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Re:Windows Backup is actually quite good now

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Umm, so they're doing an image-based backup but apply huge amounts of logic to understand filesystems to achieve what is basically a file-based backup?

And all this just because you can't efficiently back up a running Windows system because of a myriad of open files and because you would trash the holy fragile registry?

Yeah, I can see why UNIX seems archaic to some. It's because all the stuff still works and hasn't had layers and layers of obscurity piled on top over the years*.

* Not talking about Linux :P