14 DAY TRIAL // One year ago today, Microsoft launched the Windows Insider Program, a completely new effort that was supposed to allow regular users to work together with the company on developing and improving the new Windows 10 operating system.
The program continues today even though the RTM version of Windows 10 is already up for grabs, with Microsoft saying that it wants to continue this collaboration for the next OS updates that are projected to launch in late 2015 and 2016.
27 builds delivered to users
Since the debut of the Windows Insider program, Microsoft has rolled out a total of 27 PC and mobile builds, and more will follow in the next months, Gabe Aul, the chief of the entire initiative, says in a statement.
“We continue to be humbled and grateful at the amount of effort and energy that Insiders bring to the program, and we hope that you’ve had a lot of fun along the way too. You got to see things first, try them early in their development, and shape the direction we went,” Aul explains.
“You suggested ideas that made it into the release (and more to come!) and sent bug reports that allowed us to fix problems so that your friends and family running the final release could have a smoother experience.”
While development of the PC version of Windows went really well and insiders were provided with a plethora of builds, not the same thing can be said about the mobile version, whose testing goes rather slow.
After the debut of the PC sibling, which Microsoft said was a turning point for the mobile version because more engineers were supposed to start working on it, the company was expected to roll out new builds for supported smartphones at a faster pace, but two months later, this is yet to happen.
A new build for Windows 10 Mobile insiders is likely to ship next week, so keep an eye on the news to find out when this happens.