Earlier today,
Brad Sams from Neowin broke the news that Microsoft would have a large system update to Windows 10 in 2016.
He said his sources used and confirmed the name “Redstone”.
Now Mary Jo Foley is not only confirming the update but she’s shedding some light on what exactly Redstone will be.
From her ZDNET blog:
Redstone will be delivered automatically to Windows 10 users as part of their regular, every-month-or-so updates.
Redstone will just be a larger update than the others and will provide new functionality and support for new classes of devices that aren’t already part of Windows 10, so the supposed thinking goes.
Releasing regular updates to Windows 10 works well for things like Spartan (the new Windows 10 browser), messaging and the Start Menu — things that increasingly are not part of the Windows core.
But for deeper core work to support the devices building on top of Windows 10 — things like Xbox Surface Hub, Windows Phone, and HoloLens — sometimes bigger changes are needed that require bigger updates like Redstone.
So there you have it.
Redstone will be a larger system update which will deliver larger and more complex integration updates to Windows 10.
Considering the size of the infrastructure that Windows 10 will be supporting, this makes perfect sense.
Stay tuned…
via:windows10update│zdnet│neowin et al
