[OFFICIAL] Windows 10 Insider Program

[MikeM97]

What? Dude, it's this easy. There are many labs inside Microsoft and each one is responsible for a set of features. Each of them creates a new build daily, independently from each other.

 

Here's what I had to know .

Everybody should get rid of the idea of a single build being filtred by all dev channels one by one .

[PotatoAlchemist]

I am somewhat surprised that they debuted Spartan in its current form. Is it me or is Spartan missing even basic key combos in address bar? I can't get CTRL+A to work on mine in 10061.

The core OS had been rock solid for me since 9926. There are individual glitches but overall it has been stable for my daily driver.

 

It does work on my end, as it did in the previous build. Perhaps clean installation has something to do with it or not, but it was mentioned before in the bugs list.

"In Project Spartan, no selection highlight appears, when selecting text in the address box. You can right click in the address box to cut/copy/paste and it will work as expected. We also have a fix for this coming via WU."

 

I've got bigger beef with the inability to paste copied content from Project Spartan or any other text content into the reply form here in Neowin and probably in couple of other sites too.

[netty2014]

There are also torrents of this build (took zero seconds, as they are at the Usual Suspects).  Here is what I have found so far:

 

1.  You can upgrade (in the pre-10 manner) from 10056 to 10061 - I did this with my desktop and the development notebook.

2.  Mount/upgrade (from 8.x) still works - that also means that using third-party image-mount tools (Virtual Clone Drive, Daemon Tools, etc.) should also work (Windows 7 and Vista).

3.  And i have an idea what the (TWS) is before an earlier iteration of this build, and 10066 - Target Windows Seven.  (That would also explain the different RSA key - these two builds target a specific upgrade case - Windows 7-based upgrades.)  With that being the case, OF COURSE upgrades from 8 and later won't work.

heres another tip for you windows 8,8.1,10 will plug and play into any computer reconfigures itself and reboots no disk needed

[indospot Veteran]

It does work on my end, as it did in the previous build. Perhaps clean installation has something to do with it or not, but it was mentioned before in the bugs list.

"In Project Spartan, no selection highlight appears, when selecting text in the address box. You can right click in the address box to cut/copy/paste and it will work as expected. We also have a fix for this coming via WU."

 

I've got bigger beef with the inability to paste copied content from Project Spartan or any other text content into the reply form here in Neowin and probably in couple of other sites too.

 

You can paste, but it takes a good while for the copied content to be pasted.

[HawkMan]

Dumb article:

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/windows-license-expiration/

 

that's about pirated version(unlicensed) and is how MS has said it would be, pirated copies can upgrade, but they will still be pirated(unlicensed) copies with Windows 10 

[neufuse Veteran]

last time I checked, every MS beta had an expiration date on it....... I remember them all the way back to windows 98's beta.... this author needs to get out of journalism and stop trying to scare people with nonsense

[nosense]

In the age of the internet anybody can be a so called journalist. 

[Dot Matrix]

Old Vista wallpapers oddly feel right at home on Windows 10...

 

 

 

 

[tompkin]

This is weird. I got a feedback question "How likely are you to recommend Mozilla Firefox to someone you know?"

No chance at this point. I assume they mean the desktop version. Why? Because the android phone version is so crappy. I want to sync across devices. From what I understand now, Firefox syncs but on my Android, it very slow and clunky.

 

The reason I bring this up is that I want Microsoft to have a browser on all devices not just Office. I seriously doubt whether they'll port IE (why would they) so Spartan is the hope. Since their Office programs sync so well, I am very hopeful that the browser team will realize this benefit and implement this. Here's to hoping.   

 

EDIT: Sorry I just realized I'm way off topic. Just saw the question and responded.

[+Zagadka Subscriber²]

In the age of the internet anybody can be a so called journalist. 

Yea, all of these sites are unprofessional journalism.

[MikeM97]

Oh , no ...

I start to like 10061 ...

Any advice ?

Will it meantain its style till the end of july ?

[FunkyMike]

Old Vista wallpapers oddly feel right at home on Windows 10...

 

I don't think MS ever had any problems with their selection of wallpapers ; )

[PotatoAlchemist]

 

Get Started definitely looks different than when freshly installing build 10061. Besides going dark on the titlebar and sidebar, it also gained a new Settings button.

[indospot Veteran]

http://ms-vnext.net/Flights/

 

Apparently they're no longer calling them "Fast", "Medium" and "Slow" rings. They're now Canary, OSG and External. No idea if it's been like this before.

[scumdogmillionaire]

Those are their internal rings they have to get through before hitting External (Fast)

[Taliseian]

Quick question...

 

Has anyone recently had any issues going from W7 -> W10TP

 

10041 is listed as an ISO download - but tried last night and this morning to use the Windows Update method (Windows10TechnicalPreview.exe) and it failed

 

...no other updates pending

...disabled anti-virus/MalwareBytes

 

Thanks in advance....

 

 

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[indospot Veteran]

Those are their internal rings they have to get through before hitting External (Fast)

I know that. But they used to call them Fast, Medium and Slow.

[MikeM97]

I know that. But they used to call them Fast, Medium and Slow.

 

Because that was easier for everybody , newcomers or not .

[mdtaUK]

http://ms-vnext.net/Flights/

 

Apparently they're no longer calling them "Fast", "Medium" and "Slow" rings. They're now Canary, OSG and External. No idea if it's been like this before.

What they did call the Slow ring on that site, didn't match to the Slow ring for insiders.  

External seems to be the Insider Fast Ring.  The OSG (Operating System Group) ring seems to be where the leaked partner builds are coming from.  

The Canary ring, are probably the daily builds that the Microsoft people are able to install on their devices

[MikeChipshop Member]

I know that. But they used to call them Fast, Medium and Slow.

Nah, Canary and the like, were always the names of internal working groups, generating various levels of build. Fast - Slow are relTed to the external build group and sub groups within it.

[indospot Veteran]

What they did call the Slow ring on that site, didn't match to the Slow ring for insiders.  

External seems to be the Insider Fast Ring.  The OSG (Operating System Group) ring seems to be where the leaked partner builds are coming from.  

The Canary ring, are probably the daily builds that the Microsoft people are able to install on their devices

 

I already said I know that. I'm just saying that's how they referred to it and now they don't.

[Studio384]

I know that. But they used to call them Fast, Medium and Slow.

No, these rings have always been named Canary, OSG and External, MS vNext just never used the correct words.

[Dashel]

I'm finding it terribly confusing on why in some apps (weather), the hamburger triggers a lefthand flyout.  In other apps however (mail, music, video), its a collapse and relies on an additional settings button.  I really hope they go with the former and turn the settings button into the collapse.

[indospot Veteran]

No, these rings have always been named Canary, OSG and External, MS vNext just never used the correct words.

 

Point taken, I'm just stating the change on the website.

[x.iso]

I'm finding it terribly confusing on why in some apps (weather), the hamburger triggers a lefthand flyout.  In other apps however (mail, music, video), its a collapse and relies on an additional settings button.  I really hope they go with the former and turn the settings button into the collapse.

Mail app is most confusing and inconsistent of them all. lots of stupid UI decisions, I hope they do it only as test field to explore if any of those elements should be included.

 

Regarding hamburger menus, they pose the most threat to WP10, but also quite a pain for tablet users, and there are plenty of concepts how to improve the situation like this: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/19/8069609/hamburgers-on-windows-a-possible-solution