Windows 10 Incoming!
Well, Microsoft hasn’t come out and directly said that Windows 10 has reached RTM, but there have been a few interesting occurrences in the past few days which point directly to RTM:
- Windows 10 Insiders, those running the Windows 10 beta, have been on two separate update cycles name slow ring and fast ring where users in the fast ring would be updated to the latest and greatest while slow ring users would be updated more slowly to “stable” builds throughout the beta program. Slow ring users were always behind fast ring users by several build versions.
- The last release to fast ring users, those receiving the latest and greatest build, was #10166 and the previous release was #10162.
- Earlier this week Microsoft announced they were temporarily suspending preview builds – meaning there would be no more updates or downloads.
- Microsoft released build #10240 to both slow and fast ring users on July 15th.
I’m definitely not gifted with ESP, but the coincidence is just too much to ignore!
- There is a considerable jump in build numbers from 10166 to 10240.
- Both the slow ring and fast ring are updated to the same build number.
- July 15th is exactly 2 weeks before the announced release date of July 29th – OEMs like HP and Dell need the OS so they can have Windows 10 available on new PCs for the July 29th launch.
Stand by… Windows 10 incoming!
If W10 Build 10240 is the RTM then I am going back to a dual boot with XP and W7 with a Linux VM in XP. This decision is made because MS will not get their head out of their — about the auto update feature that keeps downloading and installing the same crapy graphics driver. I might consider running W10 in a VM with W7. Some machines will run W10 without a problem but mine doesn’t. Will stay in the W10 Insider Program until July 29th, but after that I will have to rebuild my machine.
After running every build until 10240 I had zero problems.
Had to backout of this to 10162 because my USB wireless adapter (long range) got taken out.
It uses a Ralink chipset and Windows 8.1 also corrupted the driver. Straight 8 and all flavours of 7 have no issues with the chipset.
Frustrating since all builds, for well over a year, ran without a hitch.
I never found a driver that would work with 8.1 so fear that the same situation is looming with the final RTM.
Have you looked here – http://www.mediatek.com/en/downloads1/downloads/ – for drivers?
After creating, cloning and deleting partitions and rebuilding the boot loader I finally have my W7 and XP dual boot back up and running.
Since I have had issues with the NVidia graphics driver, W10 will be a look, wait and see thing for me. Hope everyone has fun with W10 like I have had with the Tech Preview.