14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently confirmed a new Windows 10 event that will take place next month and which is expected to bring us new information regarding the upcoming operating system.
The company says in a post on the official Windows blog that the event will have Terry Myerson, Joe Belfiore and Phil Spencer talking about the consumer experience on Windows 10, so there’s no doubt that Microsoft plans to unveil some of the features that could be offered to consumers once the operating system hits the market.
At the same time, the new CEO Satya Nadella will also attend the event and hold a keynote, but the important details are very likely to be unveiled by Myerson and Belfiore, as was the case in late September, when they introduced the new Windows 10 Technical Preview for enterprises.
Live webcast will also be offered
The event will take place in Redmond, and since not everyone will be able to attend, Microsoft will also offer a webcast to allow users across the world to watch it and see what’s new on the consumer side of Windows 10.
Obviously, it’s too soon to reveal these features, but it’s easy to speculate that Windows 10 Consumer Preview could come with an early version of Cortana and Continuum, the new option that allows the switching from the desktop UI to Metro instantly for 2-in-1 PCs.
There’s, however, a very important thing to consider when talking about the upcoming Consumer Preview build of Windows 10.
While Microsoft could present this particular release at the event next month, this doesn’t necessarily mean that the build would become available for everyone soon after that. Instead, we’re hearing that the Consumer Preview could be unveiled a few months later, when more features are ready.
At the January event, however, Microsoft could present what’s being called Windows 10 January Technical Preview, a revised build that comes with several improvements, including a kernel version update to 10.0.
Some of these changes are already available in Windows 10 build 9888 and can be tried out by pretty much everyone out there if they agree to install this unofficial release. Windows 10 9888 doesn’t ship through the official channels belonging to Microsoft and it’s only available online on file-sharing websites, so use it at your own risk.
Microsoft doesn’t mind that people actually give this build a try and explained that the reason they decided not to push it to Windows Insiders was that this build included several bugs and was less stable than its predecessors.
