Microsoft confirms two major Windows 10 updates coming in 2017

There will be no major update for Windows 10 that adds new functionality this year, but two updates will appear in 2017. Microsoft has confirmed this after the release of the Anniversary Update of Windows 10.

The Anniversary Update that Microsoft released last week is a so-called feature update that brings Windows 10 to version 1607. It is the third feature update for the OS and the last of this year, Microsoft confirms. Next year, the software developer expects to release two more such major updates.

According to Windows Central, the first update will be released in early 2017, followed by the second in the summer of that year. Microsoft is working on the updates under the internal names Redstone 2 and Redstone 3 and the latter is said to be more limited in scope. The Anniversary Update was known internally as Redstone 1.

The content of the packs is still unknown, but Microsoft would like to send the first updates with Redstone 2 changes to Insiders in the near future. According to previous rumors, Redstone 2 should have been released in 2016, but was delayed ‘due to hardware’. In addition, this update would contain functionality that the Anniversary Update did not make and Microsoft would focus in particular on expanding the functionality of its own apps on Windows 10.