Microsoft has finally released Windows 10, following several months of hype built around the new universal operating system. Henceforth, Windows 10 will serve more as a service, updating regularly, adding latest feature as well as optimizing itself. So, many are wondering what the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant, may be planning now, as its "service" has been released to the world.

According to a report in IB Times, henceforth, updates will be downloaded as well as installed routinely via Windows Update. The Verge reports that the first update, scheduled to arrive in the beginning of this month, will be Service Release 1 (SR1). It is said to be a collection of bug fixes, which is expected to attend to the disapproval of reviewers like Walt Mossberg, who stated that Windows 10 may possibly not be rather ready yet.

After SR1, Microsoft has planned an update for October will introduce the Skype-integrated Messaging app. Recently, the Skype team announced that the operating system will not support the touch-based Windows 8 app any longer. Hence, users expecting to get the complete universal app experience will be requiring this update to restore the touch support. In addition, the update is also likely to include extensions support for Microsoft Edge, a feature that was absent at the launch of the new operating system. While reviewers have expressed satisfactions over Edge saying that it is a good start, The Guardian stated that the new browser is incomplete without extension support.

According to Neowin, the next major Windows project for Microsoft following this is code named "Redstone." The name has been derived from an item in Minecraft, the popular game developed by a company that the Redmond tech titan acquired in November. In fact, this is a sort of a theme for Microsoft; the initial Windows 10 release was code named "Threshold," a planet from the Halo video game series, which is also a property of Microsoft.

Considering that Microsoft does not change its itinerary between now and the release of Redstone in 2016, the update will be available free to all Windows 10 users. As of now, Microsoft has planned Redstone as two updates - one of which will come in the summer, while the second in the fall.

As soon as these Redstone updates are available, Insider Preview customers will receive their beta versions. However, Microsoft will not ask these users whether they want to avoid receiving beta versions of Windows. In order to stop receiving the beta versions, the customers will be required to install a retail copy of Windows 10 along with a valid product key.