Windows 7 was officially RTM’d and released to OEM’s on July 24, but consumers won’t get their hands on it until October 22. However, certain other special groups are able to eat it earlier, such as MSDN and Technet subscribers, who will get it on August 6.

I couldn’t wait, so I forked out cash for a TechNet subscription, which ended up costing me in the area of SGD$500 after a 15% discount. All in all, it isn’t a bad deal, considering I’ll have access to numerous other Microsoft products to play with, such as Windows Server 2008. Being an aspiring system administrator (once I finish my army term), it works out great to have a bundle of software to tinker around during my (admittedly) free time.

Oh, I posted this from Internet Explorer just to top it off.