Microsoft is now hard at work developing the next major update for Windows 10. Codenamed ‘Redstone 2‘, this next update is rumored to launch in the Spring of 2017 and will focus on productivity improvements for the desktop, and will bring much-needed features and enhancements to Windows 10 Mobile users.
“…will bring much-needed features and enhancements to Windows 10 Mobile users.†LOL! All 42 of those Windows 10 Mobile users are rejoicing now!
Because all the other gazillion sheep using ‘droid wouldn’t appreciate anyway… 😉
Focusing on mobile users after having stopped their own mobile phone line and literally screwed desktop experience beforehand.
Smart as ever.
I think they are playing a long game here. Continuing development of the mobile platform, keeping it up to date with features so when they finally decide to bring it back with hardware it will be less of a chore.
With users suffering their choices in the meantime. Until the market is ready to switch. At their expense.
Nice move.
Don’t forget they also screwed HP and a couple smaller companies, who decided to try it with WinMo.
You know you’re reading a fanboy article and/or advertisement when it is a POSITIVE thing that the product is behind schedule.
More worrying is the fact that I’m not sure if this list of features are more or less boring than what Apple just released. No wonder Thom didn’t bother to write a single line about it.
Windows, I hate to admit it, but its becoming more stable and more user friendly. Its like how Mac OSX was back in the panther/jaguar days. Good changes being made pretty quickly with a focus on useful things, especially to developers.
Of course this will all end badly (just like it did for Apple)in a few years when MS totally stops caring about docker, windows sub system for linux, open source .net, and the cli improvements. So use everything at your own risk.
Microsoft is still working on phone features for Windows 10. This makes me wonder if “the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing”, or if they are developing a phone sized Surface that will run full Windows and have a phone app. Just a thought.
Already done :
http://www.ockelproducts.com/
Seems true workers’ suggestions. Will be welcomed.
I actually think the platform is awesome as it is today. The drag still continues to be the quality of third party apps.
How about fixing some of massive existing problems first?
Windows still hasn’t fixed the NT registry clusterfuck or file fragmentation problem after 25 years. My W10 laptop has a huge problem with using a VPN on wifi has been known since 2012 and still hasn’t been fixed.
Not going to talk about the Registry. Always been a ‘politics’ issue.
Spinning hardware came and went out of mainstream without truly solving -in a convincing way- file fragmentation.
In the new hybrid units would be a breeze to solve it. But it’s a problem whose ‘bigness’ dyed of old age.
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If tunnel aficionado Then make them carved with OpenBSD [or something like that]. Be lawful [Don’t bet the ranch on anything digital (This is still a nursery)].
I want the mysterious “The stub received bad data” error fixed. I’ve got a few machines I’m supporting that show this error at least once a day no matter which application the user tries to start. None of the standard suggestions from Microsoft such as using sfc, chkdsk, or dism have made a bit of difference. This came with the 1607 update, and not even a clean reinstall takes care of it. If it was one machine I’d test for hardware failure, but I’ve got at least six that I know about doing this. All started at the same time, and a clean install didn’t help any of them. I can’t even find a detailed explanation of what the error actually means.
Not going back into MS nightmares, Darknexus. Just the usual advice. Can you get back in time? Through Restore? Does that error give you the option to compile a report [and sent it]?
Can you live with it? [A very average option at MS World]. Workarounds?
If a stub error then probably interprocess. Then probably with a non-MS [old or non updated] application. Always have plan B [and C] for non-MS. Maybe you didn’t, but NOW need to run some of them on compatibility mode.
There are diagnostic tools going well beyond the task manager. [This, this shouldn’t be an issue for you to waste time! If handling only fresh produce].
These are no longer the times for an average consumer to expend long hours under the hood of the things They buy.