14 DAY TRIAL // A few weeks ago, we exclusively reported that Windows 10 RTM was almost ready for launch, and now we have the confirmation that Microsoft is very close to completing its work on the new operating system.
On the sideline for the BUILD 2015 developer conference, Joe Belfiore, Corporate Vice President, Operating Systems Group at Microsoft, confirmed that Windows 10 is “pretty close to be done,” but he also revealed that there's still some work to complete in other sections, such as apps.
Windows 10 is projected to launch in the summer, with some sources pointing to August as the release date, so Microsoft still has a month or two to reach RTM before getting ready for the big launch.
“The core sections of the OS, they're pretty close to done. Then you get to the shell, it's probably 85 percent done. Then you get to the apps, and they are really only 65 percent done. In part that's because each part of the layer cake has to depend on the step below it, and because we can update the apps more readily. Those teams have more time. The core is pretty close to where it is going to be,” Belfiore is quoted as saying by The Reg at BUILD.
Some features won’t be ready
Even though Belfiore admitted that there is still work to be done in some areas, Microsoft has no reason to be worried that Windows 10 won’t be ready in time for the summer 2015 launch.
A number of features that are still in development right now won’t be included in the RTM version of Windows 10, but would debut at a later time in a first big update for the operating system. The Autumn Update, as some call it, could see daylight in October, at about the same time as the phone version of Windows 10.
Features that won’t be included in Windows 10 will be brought to us by this update, so if you pull this out of the equation, it’s pretty clear that the new operating system is very close to getting the green light.
Microsoft is yet to share any details on the release date of Windows 10, but AMD executives previously touted late July as the moment when the new OS could go live.