Two major Windows 10 updates scheduled for 2022 - wrightancle1995

Rob Schultz

It may amount as zero surprisal, but Microsoft won't release other major update for Windows 10 in 2016. The echt news is you can look two big updates to Microsoft's modish in operation system in 2017.

Microsoft Lashkar-e-Taiba the information slip in a TechNet web log mail service published earliest in the week. "Windows 10, rendering 1607 is our third Windows 10 feature update released," Microsoft aforementioned in the blog Emily Post. "Supported feedback from organizations moving to Windows 10, this will beryllium our last feature update for 2016, with cardinal additional lineament updates unsurprising in 2017."

The web log put up appears to confirm reports from the Windows rumor mill about the timing of the next two updates for Windows 10. The first update, dubbed Redstone 2, is expected to straighten in beforehand 2017 with the second, Redstone 3, landing in the summer Oregon early fall, similar to the timing of the recently released Anniversary Update (previously called Redstone 1).

Further reading: The Windows 10 Anniversary Update's top-grade new features

This schedule would put to sleep Microsoft back on a two updates per year agenda similar to the initial rollout of Windows 10, as Windows Central first pointed out. In 2015, Microsoft released Windows 10 (also called Threshold) in July and then the November Update (dubbed Threshold 2) three months later.

This time around, Redstone 2 is expected to roll KO'd in the spring and then Redstone 3 should hit about four to six months later.

The impact on you at home: Of the two updates, Redstone 2 looks to be the most interesting so Interahamw. Not necessarily because of the features, which are believed to represent largely things that weren't ready for the Anniversary Update. The big deal is that the embryotic 2017 update is expected to roll call at concert with new hardware from Microsoft, As ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley first reported back in March.

Early builds of Redstone 2 are expected to axial rotation intent on Windows Insiders in the coming weeks.

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Ian is an independent writer based in Israel who has never met a technical school theme he didn't similar. He in the first place covers Windows, PC and gaming computer hardware, video and euphony streaming services, social networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's functional on how-to tips for PC users, OR tuning his eGPU frame-up.