Windows 7…Coming In August

Windows 7 to be released to manufacturing in three months, according to Microsoft.

Windows 7 in 2010? Forget that, it’s coming sooner, and will be in the stores and on new machines well before the end of the year to take advantage of the holiday market.

At the tail of a posting from senior vice president of the Windows and Windows Live engineering group Steven Sinofsky regarding the recent Release Candidate of the browser, comes the giveaway:

“If the feedback and telemetry on Windows 7 match our expectations then we will enter the final phases of the RTM (Release To Market) process in about 3 months. If we are successful in that, then we tracking to our shared goal of having PCs with Windows 7 available this Holiday season.”

That would give an August date for getting the software to computer manufacturers and ramping up the production of CDs. Given another three months to get things into stores, and that ties in very well with Acer’s recent assertion of an October 23 launch date for Windows 7.

If any further proof was needed that Microsoft is getting close to rolling out Windows 7, yesterday it also rolled out what it called early Windows 7 “wins” according to The Register, with companies including Pella Corporation, Continental Airlines, and the City of Miami.