Microsoft is currently polishing the "Threshold 2" update, which will already be in the final stages of testing. The company hopes to have the last tests begin by next week. Currently, the software giant has also divulged more details about an important Windows 10 update, which it has codenamed Redstone. The update will be equipping the operating system with a number of new features.
A PC World report has said that the update is set to be released by summer of next year. Microsoft is also still determining which features to add to the Redstone update.
According to Winbeta, some new features which will come with Redstone will be similar to Apple's Continuity functions. The software company's Zac Bowden, who wrote the post, said so himself, "Microsoft is rather obviously taking heavy inspiration from Apple's "Continuity" feature, which does exactly what I've explained in this post just with an iPhone and Mac instead."
The Redmond giant is planning to introduce how to roam apps in different devices to its users with Redstone's new features. For example, in writing an email, with Redstone, users will be able to pick up where they have left off when switching from Windows 10 Mobile to Windows 10 desktop. They will simply have to launch the app on the other device. Browsing with Microsoft Edge from mobile and launching it on desktop will also let users pick up exactly where they have left off.
Another feature the Redstone has is it lets users call directly from their desktops. The call can be made while beamed from the mobile device, getting the two devices to work closer together. Bowden said that the new features working together is "something that definitely needs to happen as Windows 10 for desktops and Windows 10 Mobile still feel pretty disconnected, even with universal apps and user interfaces."
The update is still being finalised, and users will have to wait a few more months before they experience Redstone. Redstone has been a relatively quiet update as very few details have been released about it. Microsoft said that the update is being "drawn internally" for the most part, which explains why there has almost been no leaks about it.
