Microsoft plans significant under the hood improvements for Windows 10 20H1

Microsoft is already testing its 20H1 release for Windows 10, but not for the reasons you might have assumed.

For the first time ever, Microsoft has started testing a Windows 10 feature update with Insiders well over a year before said update is scheduled to start shipping. Usually, a Windows 10 feature update gets anywhere between six to eight months of Insider testing time, before it's finalized and starts rolling out to the rest of the world. Microsoft's Windows 10 20H1 update, however, is getting a whopping 13 months of testing with Insiders, which led many to believe that Microsoft was planning something big for this release.

This theory was further fuelled by Microsoft's vague reasoning for why 20H1 was going into testing with Insiders so early, stating that some of the things Microsoft is working on for 20H1 require longer development times. While true, it's not as exciting as one might believe. According to ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley, the reason 20H1 has such a long development phase is because the company is planning some significant under the hood changes for its release.

Mary Jo Foley claims that Azure and Windows engineering teams are trying to align with platform work going on internally, and that the work they have planned in this area requires more time than they have for the usual development cycle.

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