OSNews is reporting that Microsoft have apparently finished finalising the code for Office 2007 and are now at the stage of release to manufacturing (RTM), where the code gets shipped out to be pressed onto nice, new, shiny discs.

Unlike Windows Vista, the development cycle of Office 2007 has been fairly away from the public eye, considering how important a release it will be for Microsoft, and how popular a software product Microsoft Office is.

Office 2007 is apparently going to be released to businesses on the 30th of November, that’s the same date that Vista will be available.

Now, a lot has changed in Office 2007 since we last looked at it here on Gizbuzz, and unfortunately we can’t get our hands on the RTM, but Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows has screenshots of the RTM build that you can take a look at.

As yet, Windows Vista has not been RTM’ed, so presumably they are still fixing the final reported bugs and optimising everything before they ship.