Friday, Microsoft Corporation announced that the following update for its Windows 7 operating system would be the release candidate.

Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, stated in a blog post that the Release Candidate (RC) represented a milestone for Windows 7, adding that Microsoft was researching issues concerning the beta release of the OS on a daily basis, which they afterwards fixed and then checked to see whether the solution had taken any toll on the service’s performance, behavior, compatibility or reliability.

Moreover, Sinofsky wrote that the way leading to the roll out of the  RC mainly entailed reaching a point when the OS was in a shippable state regarding both Beta usage and partner ecosystem readiness.

Nevertheless, he did not disclose any information concerning an exact release date, saying only that the Engineering Group was in the process of evaluating the feedback and telemetry and also trying to draw up a schedule in order to achieve the desired quality level.

Sinofsky further stated that the team would not develop the product on imposed deadlines, since they were focusing on quality and performance first, aiming to fix the vulnerabilities reported by users.

When the Windows 7 was at its highest point, the team was receiving feedback on the OS every 15 seconds, Steven Sinofsky having said that they would begin blogging about the changes to be brought to the service in order to improve performance.