14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft rolled out Windows 10 build 11099 to fast ring users a few hours ago, so Gabe Aul, head of the Windows Insider program, used this occasion to remind everyone to get ready for a faster release cadence, which should allow the community to try out more new features and experiment with early changes.
Aul explained that the upcoming release cadence would be very similar to the one the company is using internally, but this could obviously lead to many more bugs being shipped to public builds. And this is why it’s so important to switch to the slow ring if you don’t want to spend too much time diagnosing bugs.
“The criteria we use to release builds to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring will be much closer to our criteria for flighting to our internal rings,” Aul went on to say.
“This will allow more builds to reach Windows Insider. This also means 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. If you’d rather stick with less frequent but more stable builds, you can switch to the Slow ring.”
Small changes in the coming builds
This isn’t the first time when Microsoft promises to release new builds at a faster cadence, but right now the company seems to be more serious about it, especially because work on the Redstone update due this summer is advancing.
The software giant, however, has already confirmed that the next few releases will be all about fixing bugs and improving performance, so it’s hard to believe that new breaking features would be included anytime soon. The whole world’s waiting for extension support for Edge to arrive in Windows 10, and word has it that Microsoft is hard at work right now to include it in preview builds of the OS.