14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft announced in December that it planned to ship Windows 10 preview builds at a faster pace than before, thus giving insiders the chance to try out more new features but also to help the Windows team get more feedback on early code.
And with the release of Windows 10 Redstone build 11102, Microsoft has officially started this new approach, promising to roll out new versions more frequently.
While this is certainly a good thing for insiders who want to test as many builds as possible, Microsoft warns that, from now on, all releases are very prone to bugs, which means that those who don’t want to lose too much time diagnosing a plethora of issues should switch to the slow ring.
“This also means that the builds we release to the Fast ring may include more bugs and other issues that could be slightly more painful for some people to live with. If you’d rather stick with less frequent but more stable builds, you can switch to the Slow ring,” Gabe Aul explains.
Small improvements in next builds
The next few releases won’t bring anything else than under-the-hood optimizations, and Aul confirms that work on OneCore is advancing nicely, but it still takes time to implement all changes.
“Most of that work is complete at this point. Still mostly working on platform changes, so expect little new UX in new few builds,” he says, adding that build 11102 brings no less than 1,200 changes, most of them not visible. “This is OS development,” Aul adds.
Redstone is the codename of the next big Windows 10 update due in the summer of 2016, with Microsoft expected to introduce several major features, including support for Edge browser extensions. These features are likely to arrive in preview builds just after Microsoft completes work on these refinements that are part of OneCore.
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— Gabriel Aul (@GabeAul) January 21, 2016