Something all customers have been asking recently , the General Availability (i.e. on the shelf) date for Windows 7 has been announced as October 22nd 2009.  This was announced yesterday on the Windows team blog.

The RTM (Release to Manufacturing) date hasn’t been confirmed yet, however it is expected the code will be available around the 2nd half of July.  Windows Server 2008 R2 is expected to be around this time too.  Not long to go people!!

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/06/02/the-date-for-general-availability-ga-of-windows-7-is.aspx