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Microsoft Introduces Build Cadence Selection With Windows 10

Posted by Soulskill on from the putting-a-ring-on-it dept.

jones_supa writes: Microsoft has just released Windows 10 TP build 9860. Along with the new release, Microsoft is introducing an interesting cadence option for how quickly you will receive new builds. The "ring progression" goes from development, to testing, to release. By being in the slow cadence, you will get more stable builds, but they will arrive less often. By choosing the fast option, it allows you to receive the build on the same day that it is released. As a quick stats update, to date Microsoft has received over 250,000 pieces of feedback through the Windows Feedback tool, 25,381 community forum posts, and 641 suggestions in the Windows Suggestion Box.

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  1. It's great to see so much community feedback by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hopefully all this community feedback translates into functional changes in the operating system. They made a huge mistake with Windows 8 by relying on the standard Windows 7 feedback mechanism (that seemingly most people turned off) so this looks like a much better solution with much broader participation.

    1. Re:It's great to see so much community feedback by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Because Microsoft has a great track record of paying atterntion to feedback.

      They don't have a record of doing widespread public tech previews with extensive feedback programs either, but they're doing it now. While we're on the subject what's that operating system that does public tech previews, asks for feedback and *doesn't* listen to the torrent of complaints? Oh yeah, Debian!

  2. Re:Does it rape your privacy by Barlo_Mung_42 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not rape when you are giving full consent.