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.

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Visual Studio with the Minecraft Interface ?

[Crashmarik]

You really will have blocks of code then

Redstone

[bruce_the_loon]

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.

Re:Why is that important news?

[sexconker]

Windows Live. The only Windows with DirectX 12.1.
Only $9.99 per month per device. Includes 60 minutes of Skype credit, a bunch of storage you'll never fill up on a good service you won't use because it isn't called Dropbox, and you have to log into your Microsoft account to do anything. No, your Microsoft account. Your email address you don't use. No, not that one. Look, do you have an Xbox? It used to be called Hotmail but we don't call it that anymore. It's the one you use to view on Outlook. No, not at work, on outlook.com. Yes, even though your address ends in hotmail.com.

Oh look

[Ol Olsoc]

Another Windows story. That part is okay, but way too many peopple seem to want to drop into the never clever discussion:

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.