What is Redstone? It’s the next big update to Windows 10 slated for release sometime in 2016.
Redstone is the second update coming for Windows 10 and is a larger update compared to Threshold 2. Redstone will be what Windows 8.1 was to Windows 8 essentially, bringing much needed changes and improvements to the feature-set and design of Windows 10. Redstone is scheduled to launch around a year after Windows 10 did, and is pretty much ‘next’ version of Windows.
The Verge has just got wind of a rumor that may see Cortana and the Action Center getting much more useful in the next big update for Windows 10, codenamed Redstone.
The deal with Redstone is that MSFT is begging someone to launch a missle at Redmond to put them out of their misery, Also it is purportedly the program to really get W10 right. Really, no really.
They don't know how to get Windows right, and even if they stumbled on what's needed they most certainly no longer have the talent to even merge the good parts of Win 7 back into it.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Whoa, it looks like I've got VMware Player version 6.0.7. It even thinks I'm running Windows 8.1 instead of 10! All I know is it came with Andy, an Android emulator. So it's probably not that. For now, I've stopped the message by disabling the scheduled task: \Microsoft\Windows\WS\WSRefreshBannedAppsListTask
Microsoft, is Windows 10 the best you could do? Really? After promising to listen to our feedback, what a letdown!
VMware player 6 is an oldie but goodie. I'm a bit surprised it even knows about 8.1 - they must have patched it.
I just realized today that another way to see the list of scheduled tasks one has disabled is available through Autoruns. As it turns out, I had disabled the WSRefreshBannedAppsListTask (among a LOT of others) a while back (note all the empty boxes)... With this convenient overview, I'll probably review the lists and disable some more.
When the mods on the Answers forum first banned me, I think they must have kicked me entirely off the insider program at that time. I was never able to get another Insider update. I guess being one of the first, they didn't quite know how deep to cut.
In hindsight, I'm happy not to be running the latest pre-release code (not that 10586 pre .63 didn't seem flaky, and for a while it was being updated every day). It's finally settled down, without a whole lot of time to spare assuming the furious early patching is what the "Deferred Upgrade" crowd hopes to avoid.
I just think of it as a few weeks/months longer I get to live in happy ignorance of the quagmire Microsoft is stirring up, and I'm using the time to shore up my existing systems and tinker with the latest released Win 10 funhouse.
I wonder how many folks can say with authority that their computing environment would just continue working if the "cloud" were to evaporate.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Why don'tcha go back in under another username and log into your system with it. Then go to Upates and Security/Advanced Setup. Where your MS id would be should be a button that says Take Control. Click that and verify, and then check updates. The latest build, along with necessary CUs should install
What is Redstone? It’s the next big update to Windows 10 slated for release sometime in 2016.
Redstone is the second update coming for Windows 10 and is a larger update compared to Threshold 2. Redstone will be what Windows 8.1 was to Windows 8 essentially, bringing much needed changes and improvements to the feature-set and design of Windows 10. Redstone is scheduled to launch around a year after Windows 10 did, and is pretty much ‘next’ version of Windows.
The Verge has just got wind of a rumor that may see Cortana and the Action Center getting much more useful in the next big update for Windows 10, codenamed Redstone.
Microsoft is currently developing the next version of Windows 10, codenamed Redstone which will introduce a whole batch of new features, fixes and other operating system improvements. So far, Microsoft has released multiple pre-release builds of Redstone to Insiders for testing, but is yet to give any dates as to when Redstone will be ready for the public.
We already know that Redstone will launch in two waves, the first of which will be happening in June. This first update is being developed under the tag RS1, and according to my sources who are familiar with the matter, will focus mostly on the convergence of different Windows 10 devices such as PC, Xbox and Phone. RS1 will heavily concentrate on the Universal App Platform, bringing the Windows Store to Xbox One and introducing more Project Centennial and Islandwood apps to the Store.
There will also be a bigger focus on universal AAA video game titles between Xbox and PC, which is something we have already started seeing as of recently. In short, the Windows Store in RS1 aims to be a hub for all media-related content on the Windows platform, accessible from any Windows 10 device.
As I have already mentioned in the past, Continuum will also be a big focal point in Redstone. I’m told SMS texting and cellular calls will come to the desktop via Continuum from a Windows 10 Mobile device, allowing users to make phone calls from their phone directly on their PC much like you can with an iPhone and OS X. Internally, Microsoft is expanding the term “Continuum” to mean more than just different user-experiences, which is why I’m filing it under Continuum in this article. Engineering teams use Continuum as a codename for this new functionality.
What that also means is the additional functionality mentioned here will be available for more than just phones that support Continuum currently. The ultimate goal here is to use Continuum as a way of bringing Windows 10 devices closer together, and this should happen with Redstone. It is unclear whether Microsoft will advertise the ability to SMS and take cellular calls from the desktop as “Continuum”, we shall see.
Regarding branding for RS1, it is likely, but not definite, that Microsoft will opt for using the same naming scheme it’s using currently, giving it a version number deciphered by the month and year in which the update is released. In this case for RS1, it’ll be “Windows 10 Version 1606” matching that of the Windows 10 Threshold 2 update which is “Windows 10 Version 1511”.
Moving on to RS2, which is the second Redstone update that was originally slated for release later this year, has been pushed back to Spring 2017. RS2 will likely be used to continue work on features that do not make the cut for RS1, much like how TH2 worked when TH1 was released in July last year. In other words, if any features that I mention or have mentioned in this article are not in RS1, they’ll likely land with RS2 alongside other new additions instead. There will also be a bigger focus on first-party apps with RS2, but that’s all I know at this point.
Of course, there will be new features and UI adjustments throughout the Redstone cycle too, most of which I hear will be cosmetic changes to already available features in Windows 10 TH2. Updates to the Start Menu and Settings app are in the works, as well as an improved Action/Notification Center that will give users much more control over their notifications. We should also see the Control Panel continue to be deprecated, with more legacy Control Panel elements showing up in the updated Settings app instead.
With BUILD less than a month away, it shouldn’t be too long before we know a lot more about this first wave of Redstone updates. Microsoft is expected to release a preview build of Redstone with extension support for Microsoft Edge very soon, allowing developers to begin making extensions in time for RS1’s launch in June. Insiders will also get a front row seat in testing extensions, making sure the experience is smooth for release.
The words that came to mind when I read all that were:
"Much Ado About Nothing"
It's all cool-sounding names (ooh, continuum) and no substance whatsoever. SMS Texting from a desktop? Updates to the Start Menu? Edge Extensions?
Fucking really? Sorry for the profanity, but it's warranted with Windows.
They'll lose me entirely if they screw up the ability to de-configure the goddamn thing into a desktop-only system, and it sure looks like they're heading that way. It's like a cancer has its tentacles growing into every part of the Windows core system.
I'm having one of those "bright" days today where I can see everything really clearly. And I see nothing but cancer with Windows.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Hm, does that mean that once "Redstone 1" is released, we might have a whole year without an in-place upgrade?
If so, it might be the first glimmer of hope for Windows 10 in a long time, since an operating system that's continually and forever changing isn't useful to anyone.
It cannot be about running Windows forever. It HAS to get back to being about doing the things the user wants to do with their computer or device or whatever.
-Noel
Author of the "How to Configure the 'To Work' Options" series of Windows books. Not feeling enough love to do one for Windows 10.
Post by Bayer A.User on Mar 17, 2016 13:18:59 GMT -6
Todays generation is obsessed with "Zombies" so dead10 is probably perfect for them.
As for Redstone, More marketing bait n switch. More wait n see . Tune in next week for the stunning conclusion. More Cortana integration with Edge, a couple weak addons. I predict it will be another WTF disappointment.
Microsoft extends Skylake support for Windows 7 and 8.x devices until 2018 1.To help provide greater flexibility for customers who have longer deployment timeframes to Windows 10, the support period for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices on Skylake systems will be extended by one year: from July 17, 2017 to July 17, 2018. 2.Also, after July 2018, all critical Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 security updates will be addressed for Skylake systems until extended support ends for Windows 7, January 14, 2020 and Windows 8.1 on January 10, 2023. www.winbeta.org/news/microsoft-extends-skylake-support-windows-7-8-x-devices-2018
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<Rick> Good video. It's almost hard to believe that at one time Windows 98 was the resource hog, but even then, it still ran circles around what Windows 10 can do on today's modern hardware and look a heck of alot better doing it.
May 25, 2021 22:55:12 GMT -6
<Rick> As stated elsewhere, So much for the launch of Windows 11, "The Great Crash." Myself, I had a hard time getting into the site listed above, when I did get in, the video was partly done and then it crashed. There has been many other reports of crashing.
Jun 24, 2021 9:52:33 GMT -6
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<Rick> I see Microsoft has been very quick to pull down reports of site crashing regarding the Launch of Windows 11 on the Microsoft Insiders forum.
Jun 24, 2021 9:57:31 GMT -6
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<Rick> The rebroadcast is working okay.
Jun 24, 2021 11:00:25 GMT -6
<Rick> With reports of people being able to install the dev-edition of Windows 11 on machines not meeting spec, I thought I would give it a what-the-heck try. Lucky me, I'm caught in the downloading, doesn't meet spec, clearing, re-downloading loop on my machine!
Jul 2, 2021 7:08:46 GMT -6
<Rick> I've recently purchased a license for ArcaOS from www.arcanoae.com/ to play with. First impressions, it's still OS/2, but it now has a Linux twist to it.
Jul 2, 2021 7:32:53 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> laptop shit out and am stuck buying a new one. os win11 as fucked as win10 was?
Oct 2, 2021 12:56:10 GMT -6
<Rick> Let's see ..., my impression of Windows 11 is that it is a spruced up version of Windows 10 requiring a 64-bit processor plus a piece of security hardware that is less than 4 years old in order for it to run.
Oct 4, 2021 18:25:49 GMT -6
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<Rick> On the plus side, Microsoft is supposed to be supporting Windows 10 for some time to come for those of us still using systems with I7 or older processors.
Oct 4, 2021 18:44:35 GMT -6
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<dozrguy> i tried installing win10 om the 'shitout' pc this morning usung media creation. EPIC FAIL! went into an endless bootloop. win7 reinstalled just fine
Oct 21, 2021 11:23:38 GMT -6
<dozrguy> STILL so much bullshit and so little time for the kiddie ideas from the hill. My new laptop (MSI GE 11-UH461) would be an awesome "10" machine but because of Winblows I can only give it a "2"......wasted $3500
Oct 27, 2021 9:36:47 GMT -6
<Rick> Hello. Just checking in.
Mar 17, 2022 10:46:54 GMT -6
<isidroco> Each new w10 update adds >100000 useless files to \Windows\Servicing\LCU\Package_for_RollupFix... folders. Even in a SSD takes time to delete that stuff. In each version they manage to worsen stuff.
Mar 27, 2022 16:14:51 GMT -6
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<dozerguy> still traffic here?
Oct 9, 2022 17:32:44 GMT -6
<Rick> No, there does not seem to be very much traffic these days. I still check in from time to time.
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