Recently, Microsoft Corporation announced that it would be updating the beta version of the Windows 7 operating system the following week, on February 24.

Nevertheless, the tech giant informed that it would be sending the patches in order to test the operating system's updating mechanism, adding that they would not be bringing users any new features.

On his blog, Brandon LeBlanc stated that Microsoft would be releasing a maximum of five test updates to personal computers running on the Windows 7 beta operating system through Windows Update. The updates are aimed at evaluating the company’s ability to deliver and manage the updating of Windows 7.

Windows 7 users are to be notified of the availability of the updates by the Windows Update service, while these will not install automatically even if the user has the Windows Update configured in order for it to do so.

Microsoft said that users would need to manually install the updates, which only entails that current files on the system would be replaced with the same version.

In other news, it has been reported that a group of Windows Vista SP2 testers received the operating system’s release candidate (RC) on Thursday, while another exclusive group of testers got the RC of Windows Server 2008 SP2.

Speaking of release candidates, back in January, Microsoft announced that the following update for its Windows 7 operating system would be the RC, but the company failed to disclose an exact roll out date.