Windows 7 RTM and Technet 3 wave release?

[LifesABeta]

I just read an article saying that Microsoft is planning to release 3 "waves" of the Windows 7 RTM. My question is, are these different waves going to be different RTM releases? The later waves being a more complete version.

 

[RebateMonger]

ditii.com article: Win7 RTM Wave 2 begins...

"Microsoft released Windows 7 RTM to TechNet and MSDN on Aug 6th (part of wave 1); According to Microsoft, Wave 2 on August 14th will bring: ?Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, Itanium (x64 and ia64) ? English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. All Windows 7 Client (x86 and x64) Retail and VL Editions ? French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese. Checked builds ? English.?

And, Wave 3 on August 21st: ?Remaining Windows 7 Client and Windows Server 2008 R2 Editions in the following languages, released as they become available (likely order) ? Dutch, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian, Polish, Korean, Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong ? SAR), Turkish, Czech, Portuguese, Hungarian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Ukrainian, Thai, Romanian, Lithuanian, Slovak, Bulgarian, Estonian, Croatian, Serbian Latin, Latvian, Slovenian. oWindows 7 Starter Edition ? All languages?

So:
Wave 1 was Win7 RTM.
Wave 2 is Server 2008 R2 RTM and additional language versions of W7.
Wave 3 is additional language versions of both.

Unless you want Win7 in Latvian, the additional Waves won't affect you.

 

[LifesABeta]

Thank you for clarifying! Looks like i'll be joining the club the upcoming Monday!