Microsoft Starts Testing Windows 10's Next Major Update (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday August 12, 2016 @08:41AM from the it's-coming dept.

A week after releasing Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft is already ready to unveil new features for its next major update dubbed Redstone 2. The Verge reports: The new update doesn't have any big new features for public testers yet, as Microsoft is in the early stages of making structural improvements to its OneCore shared code of Windows across PCs, tablets, phones, HoloLens, Xbox, and IoT. The first few builds available for testing "may include more bugs and other issues that could be slightly more painful for some people to live" according to Windows software engineer Dona Sarkar. Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 14901, and the company is testing out new notifications within File Explorer to provide tips on what's new in Windows 10. You can opt out of the notifications, and they're just a test for now.

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Re:When will Windows go to 11? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-08-12 12:02 · Score: 2, Informative

Windows 10 is supposedly the "last version", and everything from here-on is an update to it. (When Microsoft realizes that 10 has the rotten stink that "Windows 8" and "Windows Vista" and "Windows Me" have/had.. they'll come up with a different name. But Microsoft is more than a little dense these days, it might take them a year or two to see the light)
Which is kinda exactly like OSX.. however, as soon as Apple saw Microsoft mimic their 15-year-old version scheme (and number; "X" = "10"), Apple ditched it immediately and now simply use "macOS". But stupidly, they turned-around and copied Microsoft by choosing a "vista-like" version name "Sierra" to go with it.
"Sierra", incidentally, also happens to run right into existing "Sierra" as a software trademark, currently held and used by Activision Blizzard. Apple had to license "Classic" for use with a couple old model lines because of existing trademark, they got in trouble with Apple (the music label), several companies over "i"whatevers.... now another litigation-happy company owns a long-existing trademark Apple chose to use. I cant wait for the fireworks. Pass the popcorn.