Microsoft postponed the release of Win10 major update, in order to stop the "pro-son"

computer store news: In fact, "Win10's second-generation major functional upgrade version of Redstone 2 will be postponed" is not new news The foreign media Winbeta got the news and reported it as early as last week. Just yesterday, an article by Microsoft observer Mary Jo Foley showed that "Redstone 2" was released at the end of 2016.

Winbeta said in a message at the time that Microsoft postponed the release of "Redstone 2" in order to attract more business users to use the Win10 system:

& ldquo; After all, although for soft powder and most Consumers are well placed to embrace Microsoft's improvements and new features. However, most business users do not like this large-scale change, because it means that the system and dedicated software need to be tested and staffed. ”

However, Mary Jo Foley said:

& ldquo; Enterprise users are not the reason for Microsoft to postpone the release of Win 10 Redstone 2. On the contrary, the reason is that Microsoft's next wave of Win 10 devices will not be ready by then, whether it is software or hardware. ”

This is based on theory. In view of Microsoft's executive vice president Terry Myerson is currently the head of the Windows and hardware groups, Microsoft's collaboration between Windows software and device groups is growing. Microsoft's desire to accelerate the development of software and hardware synergy is well known.

And with a series of internal changes, Microsoft has formed a new service model for Windows —— according to the pace of launching two to three major update packages per year for Win 10 Users improve the experience.

For example, last year, Microsoft launched Win10's first important update package, "Threshold wave 2", and officially released in November, the updated version number is Win10 TH2 1511. At this point, the Win10 RTM version officially released by Microsoft in June was five months apart.

Mary Jo Foley said:

At present, insiders revealed that Microsoft will continue to follow this time rule "Redstone", that is, "Redstone" will also be in June this year. Released, “Redstone 2” will be released in November this year.

In addition, Mary Jo Foley further stated:

Microsoft is currently adjusting the development priorities of Win10's new features and new features based on the willingness and needs of the hardware group to develop the device.

She also further evidence, such as Surface pen, authentication technology and support, "Mobile phone one second change PC" Continuum function is a typical "software paving the way for hardware" case.

This further indicates that Microsoft may further enhance the interoperability of hardware and software in the two versions of "Redstone", and enhance the value of Win10 to enterprise hardware platforms.

 It turns out that due to the eagerness of the hardware team, it is extremely unwise to launch the Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book in 2015 and use the Skylake processor that Intel just released. This has also led to the two successful two-in-one notebooks that have encountered many problems such as power management just after they went public. Many people think that this pot should be blamed on the hardware combination of “Skylake+Surface”. . & rdquo;

Mary Jo Foley believes that the Surface team will learn from this experience to ensure that the same mistakes will not occur in the next generation of products (whether notebooks, tablets or legendary Surface Phones). .

In view of Intel's position, it does not believe that it will be able to launch Kaby Lake, the next generation core processor family, by the end of 2016. So Microsoft may be willing to postpone a period of time to ensure that the new processor can better adapt to the next generation of hardware.

Therefore, Win10 has a theoretical basis for providing new features and functions around these devices. Redstone 2 will not be a decisive factor in the time to market for new hardware.

As of now, Microsoft executives have not announced the schedule for Redstone 2. So the current push time for Redstone and Redstone 2 is just rumor, and Microsoft's hardware team has not stated whether or not it will even launch Surface Pro 5 and Surface Book 2.

On this point, we can look at the release date of the 2015 Microsoft products: