Microsoft Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 11082: Big changes under the hood.
Earlier this week, Microsoft Windows 10 insiders have been installing and testing the latest preview build, 11082. While this new build doesn’t feature any particular changes or new features, Microsoft Corporate VP Gabe Aul has revealed that starting from this build, which focuses primarily on enhancing core elements of Windows 10, his team will be working on delivering new builds at a faster rate:
“The new criteria will be much closer to our criteria for flighting to our internal rings, which means more builds will pass it and be released externally to the Fast ring.”, Gabe Aul wrote on the official Windows Blog, ” This also means however 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.”.
By this token, the slow ring could be a better option for those who’d rather have a more stable experience, while staying ahead of the curve in terms of what’s coming.
As previously mentioned, effective from this build, the Windows team will be putting more effort into OneCore, which is the shared core platform on which all editions and versions of Windows 10 are built, across all devices, from tablets and laptops, like the Surface Pro and Surface Book, to IoT devices, Hololens, and of course Xbox. What this means for consumers is a more stable, solid operating system, through refactoring and “...other engineering work to make sure OneCore is optimally structured for teams to start checking in new features and improvements in the new year.”, as Gabe Aul explains in his post.
A change for the better
The renowned focus on OneCore will result in consumers, who are not part of the Windows Insider program, noticing substantial improvements in how they experience Windows 10 on their devices, especially considering some of the latest issues related to display drivers, reported by a number of Surface Book and Surface Pro owners, who can look forward to a dramatic reduction of these issues as soon as 2016, when the effects of faster feedback provided by Fast Ring Insiders will result in more frequent cumulative updates featuring greater numbers of bug fixes.