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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 20 2017, @04:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-you-Linux-people-can-just-move-along dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the Windows 10 Creative Update was rolled out, the company began work on the next major update to Windows 10, code-named Redstone 3.

As it did with the Creators Update, Microsoft has been releasing public preview builds to members of Microsoft's Insider Program via a series of public preview builds.

What follows is a list of every preview build of Redstone 3, starting with the most recent. (Note: This covers only previews for the PC version of Windows 10, not the phone version.) For each build, we've included the date of its release and a link to Microsoft's announcement about it.

Note that we've kept the list of all the preview builds that let up to Creators Update, which are below the builds of Redstone 3.

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16199

Release date: May 17, 2017

This minor build includes several new features for the My People app. You can pin your favorite contacts to the taskbar and see emoji from your pinned contacts. Pinned contacts also display counters for messages you haven't yet read from them. And you can now share files with contacts by dragging and dropping files onto pinned contacts, which creates an email message to the contact with the file attached.

The build also includes several minor changes to settings, notably the addition of a health section that pulls information from the Windows Defender Security Center, making it easier to see the overall health of your PC in a quick glance.

Beyond that are the usual assortment of minor changes, improvements and bug fixes, such as Windows Defender Security Center not flagging disabled drivers as issues.

-- submitted from IRC


[Ed Note: The article goes into detail on each of the preview release builds going back a good long way. Yes, I am a Windows guy. gewg_ will have to get over it. - cmn32480]

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:03PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:03PM (#512659) Journal

    "Microsoft never sleeps."

    Maybe THAT'S the problem with Windows: maybe they should let their developers sleep once in a while and they could probably come out with some proper code.

    It REALLY should be "Microsoft SALESPEOPLE never sleep". If it weren't for them, MS would have folded looooong ago.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:44PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @06:44PM (#512668)

    Maybe their problem is not enough MBA's. Any short-sighted PHB could easily see that with Office lock-in holding their valued customers by the short hairs, they could get rid of most sales and dev positions and cost to huge profit margins on residuals. Innovation doesn't show up in the next quarter.

    :)

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 20 2017, @07:07PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 20 2017, @07:07PM (#512677) Journal

      I think you can be on to how to make Microsoft fold. Make them do exactly what they wanted all the time. Let sales and marketing MBAs populate every position.. even coding. Then run for cover ;)