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Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch
MojoKid writes: Windows 10 isn't even out the door yet, so what better time than now to talk about its successor? Believe it or not, there's a fair bit of information on it floating around already, including its codename: "Redstone." Following in the footsteps of 'Blue' and 'Threshold', Redstone is an obvious tie-in to Microsoft's purchase of Minecraft, which it snagged from Mojang last year. Redstone is an integral material in the game, used to create simple items like a map or compass as well as logic gates for building electronic devices, like a calculator or automatic doors. The really important news is that we could see Windows Redstone sometime in 2016.
and this one is already named after a Minecraft material that's frustrating to use...
You really will have blocks of code then
The really important news is that we could see Windows Redstone sometime in 2016.
What, really, is important about that?
No-one was expecting Microsoft to stop at Windows 10, were they?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Redstone is integral to Minecraft if you play it at a 'higher' level, but lots of players never do much with it, beyond a compass and a few other simple things.
Also, with reference to Minecraft, what gives, Microsoft? There still isn't a native Metro version for my tablet and phone.
Now it is clear why Microsoft spent so much to buy Mojang.
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As pointed out by Mary Jo Foley, this isn't a successor, but rather an incremental update. Windows 10 is going with more of a service model than a box product model.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-redstone-an-update-to-windows-10-due-in-2016/
Since Windows7 does everything you need except run the version-crippled version of DX that will come out, everyone who ISNT a gamer will simply stay on 7.
What about those rumors saying Windows 10 was made to stay, with continual updates instead of new major versions every now and then, and a possible introduction of a subscription scheme?
MS paid out of their nose for Mojang. Claiming that the snagged Minecraft FROM Mojang is a weird statement to say the least.
PGM-11 Redstone, The United State's first operational ballistic missile, and for more peaceful purposes, configured as Mercury-Redstone, the capsule/booster stack which put Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom into space with suborbital flights.
but it would have been funner.
Keep 'em coming Microsoft. It matters to me not. My Windows 7 works just fine and will continue to do so until you XP it to death. One day you'll get it sort of right and listen to your beta testers. Or you will continue your failed experiment. One thing I know for sure is that I'm glad I don't work for this company...
I love how the summary had more words describing features of Minecraft than it had describing features of the OS.
The fact that the fear of change starting with XP and still to this day many businesses which are smaller still using it with plans to change scare them.
Annual new releases though will drive them harder to Windows 7 more than any other time in computer history. It means businesses which take years to upgrade due to dozens if not hundreds of apps and ancient IE intranet sites will need staff that just upgrades and changes for the sake of changes year round!
Cost accountants and CIOs will not like annual upgrades
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It's a Redstone system, I know this! This time, the young hacker saves the day by knowing minecraft, instead of an sgi unix.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Well, it could be named after an obscure material in a computer game. An in-joke for those who know it.
Or it could be named after the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, or after the Redstone missile built there by von Braun and which was the base for Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom's flights into space.
Guess we'll never know.
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because there's always the next better version around the corner. That drop in revenue should get Microsoft to think about quality rather than quantity.
I guess that makes it, the Right Stuff...
They will probably call it Release 2.
Cortana, Spartan, now this.
Perhaps by 2016 Slashdot will have replaced its stained glass window with a legit Windows icon---
a courtesy it extends to every other operating system and to projects like GNU Hurd, which hasn't delivered a 1.0 release in twenty-five years.
Microsoft; please stop naming things after popular games - cortana, spartan, redstone etc - it won't win people over. The ones who get it will already buy your crap, the ones who don't will google and realise a major company is naming products after games.
What would you buy given the choice? Windows 11 or Windows Pacman? Office 2015 or Office rapelay? Visual Basic XI or Visual Basic Mortal Kombat Xtreme Edition?
When dealing with products people are practically forced to buy (directx 12 for instance) how about a little bit of god damn professionalism?
I guess Microsoft makes money from a consumer OS when it's preinstalled on a new PC, and most people just take whatever is on it.
...I think of an extremely slow and bulky computer built in Minecraft.
First!!! You lazy fools!!
Damn. I must be getting old. I thought it was referring to the Redstone rocket until I read a little further. My daughter plays minecraft, otherwise I wouldn't have even known what redstone was.
you know the start of the manned space race.
Windows 2000 was fantastic. I used it throughout most of the Win XP life cycle.
Apparently after Clippy and Zune Microsoft realized that they can't come up with a good product name to save their life. Really who in their right mind ever wanted to say "hey man, check out my Zune"
So now, they are using characters from video games for toddlers and teenagers, which are equally as un-cool.
Dirt - the most basic building block in minecraft.
what if windows becomes a rolling release?
Slashdotter 1: Every other version of Windows sucks.
Slashdotter 2: No, because your not counting Windows blahblahblah
Slashdotter 3: Hey, we're not talking about non professional second service packs, were talking about versiions that have thisorthat.
Y'all are assembling a Beowulf cluster of asininity, and Netcraft confirms it.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
The Gnu Hurd project's icons are trademark free. Microsoft's? Not so much...
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Does Minecraft really compete well with the open source Minetest? http://www.minetest.net/
The purpose of existence is to make money.
Cortana, Project Spartan, 'Redstone'.... Halo and Minecraft references.
I predict Windows 10 will both be a success and a failure, depending on your perspective.
Success: More people ditch XP and Win7 to Win10. OEMs are happy.
Failure: Still no one cares about Windows phones and tablets. Win10 isn't going to boost sales of Lumia phones or Surface tablets.
The next one will be Windows Atlas.
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Well, why should i try W10 this year if i have to install another OS right the next year?
I am runnning W7 since release (6 or 7 years now? wow) and never had to do a reinstall and now they want me to do it once a year...no chance.
Or will this be "just" an SP for W10. Going with their "Software as a Service" approach?
Never thought that Microsoft could sink as low as pandering to the Yogscast demographic. What's next? Microsoft releases a new platform for jump scare let's plays? I guess windows BOB counts for the jump scare OS. What Microsoft fails to understand is that they are not fun. Microsoft should stick to being boring but reliable. You can't change the fact that I wrote every single boring report in word, boring email in outlook, boring spreadsheets, the list is endless. At least be honest about what you're all about and what you actually accomplish. All I see these days is fad after fad after fad. It's nauseating. Create a personal computer that handles documents, helps out with statistics, makes talking/writing to people easy. No need to make things look shiny, keep things accessible as possible. Think of the possibilities if Microsoft bought out Nuance with all the money they wasted on Minecraft.
Yes, I'm a Linux user. That has nothing to do with my dislike of Windows.
Before I was a Linux user, I hated Windows. How could one like a company that was responsible for autoexec.bat and config.sys. So many hours fiddling with these files just to get games to work. That's why as soon as OS2 came out, I tried that.
Unfortunately, the fact that "everyone else" uses Windows means that one has to have Windows. Even just to maintain some level of "most of the world" compatibility.
On another note... at the moment I'm making website "responsive", so that they scale to work on phones, tablets, etc. One can easily get the responsive coding to work in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera, for every shape and size of device. I converted one site in about 20 minutes, only to realize that Internet Explorer wasn't compatible with the coding. After finding a JavaScript patch, I then used 3 hours getting the site to also work in IE. Coding that will work in every other browser just won't work in IE, thanks Microsoft :(
Where is the customer demand for this continual flood of new Windows operating systems ? I certainly have no interest in them.
I'm quite happy running my XP machine. I do my browsing on an Ubuntu box which has NoScript, Request Policy etc. so nobody gets to run shit on my machine, I don't install random crap off the internet and have a clue so I know *exactly* what's running on my machine. It's nicely secure, runs a treat and has been for about a decade. Mostly used for music, video editing and programming and the tools are good enough that I'll continue using them until the hardware dies. At which point I'll break out a spare (I have spare motherboards, drives, PCI cards etc. "in stock").
I'm not 5 years old so I have no interest whatsoever in social media, don't have a Facebook account, don't use Google services, don't have a hotmail account etc. etc. because I simply don't want any of that crap.
When I go to work I have to log into our corporate network and everything I do is monitored, journalled, accounted etc. etc. But I am absolutely not going to run something that requires me to sign in to any corporate server before I can use my home machine.
So all this push to try and force you to log in and use corporate services (so the NSA, GCHQ etc. can track you) is simply not happening in my back yard.
Like many others I have no interest in any of the new MS operating systems and will not be changing my machine every two years just because they want to rewrite stuff. Not to mention the fact that there latest GUIs are all fucking shite and they've broken the way their core tools (Windows Explorer. etc.) work. I won't even get started on what an abysmal pile of shit that useless riboon interface is. Moronic, drooling shite for retards.
Hopefully one day ReactOS will be completed then I can run my x86 binaries on something other than an MS machine.
Microsoft have totally lost the plot.
Given that fact it's surprising that I was able to install various linux distros which *did* work, eh Mark?
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