A few days ago, Long famously proclaimed that build 7600.16384 would be RTM (now retracted). Since then, another build has been compiled, and WZOR claims that this new build, 7600.16385, would be RTM. With this back-and-forth and soon-to-be-short-lived debate over which build will be released to manufacturing, I felt the need to drop by and remind people of a few things:
- RTM isn’t just this magical thing which is compiled and then immediately signed off. It takes roughly a week’s worth of testing (in the Windows world. Shane Nokes, who happens to have experience elsewhere, knows that Microsoft could sign a project off after only three days) before certifying that a build is worthy of RTM.
- 7600 will be RTM. Stop worrying about which compile of 7600 will be RTM; they only have very minor changes, if anything at all.
- There’s nothing new in these last few builds. There’s no new theme, no new components… nothing. What’s the point of worrying about which build is compiled if there’s literally no visible difference?
Of course, there’s much more to my little OP/ED here after the jump, so be cool and get to it.
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