Microsoft is planning to finalize Windows 10 this week, ahead of its official launch later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the company is currently working on final copies of Windows 10, with a release to manufacturing (RTM) build expected later this week. RTM candidate builds have already been spotted online. Once the RTM build is ready, Microsoft will send the final copy of Windows 10 to its PC partners ahead of a release to the public on July 29th.
The actual release will be staggered; not everyone will get the update on 29 July. Probably a wise thing – hopefully this will allow Microsoft to catch problematic hardware components and drivers before it’s pushed to all users.
I’m quite excited for this release. I’m definitely going to be upgrading as soon as its available for me. I’ve only been running it in a VM so far, and while that’s sufficed for testing, I want to get it on real hardware.
When Android OEMs stagger updates it’s bad, but when Microsoft does this it’s good?
I assume you’re being sardonic, because its fairly plain to see why double checking someone’s hardware is compatible before upgrading the OS is good, while leaving someone with an outdated OS well after their hardware would allow for an update is bad.
Seems unlikely. Microsoft releases RTM images to partners and MSDN subscribers, so once those are published, only bugs that affect installation process are fixed. Driver fixes are normally fed via Windows Update instead.
Microsoft is not very optimistic about this OS version, its still not new..and problem will arrise when released..and AMD and Nvidia are not happy with its changes on DX and WDDM model..so windows 8.1 drivers will not work with Windows 10 WDDM model..its Vista all over again in day one…
Edited 2015-07-10 18:50 UTC