Monday, Microsoft issued a late reminder announcing that the ability to start downloading the beta version of their new operating system Windows 7 was scheduled to end on Tuesday.

The company said that people who had started their download in time had until 9 a.m. on Thursday to finish the process, whereas users who had accessed the download site on Tuesday were only able to get the product key, yet not the code as well.

Nevertheless, even though the beta version of the Windows 7 will stop being available for the general public, members of Microsoft's MSDN and TechNet developer programs will still have access to the code.

At the end of January, 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 blog post 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.

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.

As for the final release of the Windows 7 operating system, the company said that it would come by the end of January 2010.