[German]Ha ha, just another pinch of useless knowledge. It's told, that Microsoft is ditching Windows 10 code name Redstone for the current development branch. They intend to switch to a different naming format.
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Threshold and Redstone
Microsoft uses code names for its development projects and even for development branches of its software. For Windows 10, development began with a branch named Threshold. There were Treshold 1 (Windows 10 RTM) and Treshold 2 (Windows 10 V1511). Then a new development branch with the code name Redstone was introduced.
- Redstone 1 = Windows 10 Anniversary Update
- Redstone 2 = Windows 10 Creators Update
- Redstone 3 = Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
And Redstone 4 will be Windows 10 Spring Creators Update (Version 1803) next month. In autumn we will see Redstone 5 released as Windows 10 Version 1809.
New code scheme in 2019
Windows Central writes here, citing unnamed sources at Microsoft, that Redstone 5, which will be released at least as Windows 10 version 1809 in fall 2018, is the last build of the Redstone branch.
Microsoft will switch to a new code name format starting with 'Redstone 6', now internally known as 19H1, in 2019. This format makes it easy to see when a feature update has been released. The digits 19 stand for the release year (2019), while the H1 designates the first update of the year in question. 19H1 will be the first feature update in 2019, followed by 19H2 this fall.
In 2020, the development branches 20H1 and 20H2 would then be on the agenda. This format follows a certain logic that cannot be dismissed.
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Remembers me on something …
Good question: Why does that naming scheme remembers me on the scheme uses be Influenza viruses? Uh, it will take a bad end with me as a blogger …
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