The Get Office tile has been around for a few builds at this point it's a cobbled-together Universal app that points you to various websites. On the left side of the Start menu, Microsoft really wants you to download and install the old desktop-based Skype client, since the Universal Skype app won't be ready in time. Music is identified, at least in some places, as Groove Music. The Mail app has a running advertisement ('We speak Yahoo!'). There are a few minor differences in the Start menu. You then go through the old 'Hi' sequence, ending up in a now-familiar-looking desktop, with a Start menu much like the ones we've been working with for several months. When you first sign in, Microsoft includes new advertising for Edge, as well as Photos, Music (formerly Xbox Music, now called Groove Music), and Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video). There's no watermark on the lower-right corner of the desktop, nor is there an expiration 'time bomb,' as has been the case with all previous Preview builds. Visible differences between builds 1026 are few and far between, as befits an RTM build. There's no OneDrive Universal app, as expected, and no Skype Universal app. I had problems connecting repeatedly with OneDrive, however - Windows kept kicking me out - and VPNs still don't work right. Working with build 10240 overnight, I found it to be as stable as build 10166 (which is impressive, in my experience), and noticeably faster. Those ISOs you see on various sites are home-brewed versions assembled from the official ESD files. Tantalizingly, though, Windows spokesperson Gabe Aul says, 'This build is one step closer to what customers will start to receive on 7/29.'Ĭlearly, Microsoft is trying to stress-test its servers with this build, offering it to both the Fast and Slow rings, with their more than 5 million Insiders, and making the build available only through Windows Update. I'll continue to call build 10240 the RTM build or perhaps 'the first RTM build.' Since the days of Windows 7 - and arguably earlier - RTM has had very little to do with burning bits on shiny coasters. Times change, but acronyms - not so much.

In the Windows 3.1 days, RTM meant the bits had been released to those stamping out CDs or DVDs and putting them in shrink-wrapped boxes.

In an even more surprising move, Microsoft released a huge security patch, KB 3074663, for those who install build 10240.įirst, a note about terminology: I call build 10240 the RTM build because it has been released to hardware manufacturers and other partners outside of Microsoft to be installed on new PCs and tested for new software. In a surprise move yesterday, Microsoft released build 10240 - the so-called RTM build - for Windows Insiders running the Windows 10 Technical Preview in both Fast and Slow rings.

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