Redmond starts teasing new Windows 10 features

Mar 17, 2016 09:03 GMT  ·  By

Windows 10 Redstone is already an exciting update for the core operating system, given the fact that it’ll bring browser extensions to users, but it appears that Microsoft is working on something that’s even more exciting than that.

Although development has already started behind closed doors, Microsoft executives are now teasing some of the new features on Twitter, thus trying to suggest that something unexpected will come. Something “that will change everything,” as they say.

“You are all gonna freak out!”

First of all, it’s Rich Turner, Senior Program Manager on the Windows team, who has posted a teaser and who says, as Neowin notes, that he got to “play with the new Windows 10 features and you are all gonna FREAK Out when you see this.” While he hasn’t provided any new details regarding these features, it’s very clear that at least an early version has been created, and the chances are that he’s not talking about browser extensions.

Scott Hanselman, Principal Program Manager and Community Architect on the Azure Application Platform and Tools group, has also joined the teasing frenzy and revealed that these features “are going to CHANGE EVERYTHING.” Again no details, but Turner has added that more specifics will be provided during the BUILD developer conference kicking off this month.

“These features (I know what this is because I'm helping) are going to CHANGE EVERYTHING. No joke. You can't even,” Hanselman has tweeted.

While it’s clearly too early to speculate on what exactly Microsoft’s officials are referring to, there’s no doubt that Redstone is going to be quite an exciting release for everyone on Windows 10.

Redstone is projected to make its public debut in June, but work has already started, and insiders are getting preview builds to try out new features. An upcoming build is likely to bring support for browser extensions, one of the features that are also supposed to be part of the final release later this year.