• Win10 beta builds on hold for UUP

    Posted on December 3, 2016 at 08:40 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    The last beta build for the next version of Win10 (Creators Update/Redstone 2/version 1703 build 14971) was released on Nov. 17, and it was a real snore.

    What’s taking Microsoft so long to get beta builds out?

    Last night – yeah, Friday night – we found out. Dona Sarkar added this update to the Windows 10 Mobile beta release announcement:

    We are getting ready to start releasing PC builds to Insiders using UUP. To prepare for this, we are going to pause all PC builds for both the Fast and Slow rings starting this evening (Friday 12/2). We will begin flighting the latest builds via UUP starting with our internal rings first then to Insiders based on each ring’s promotion criteria. We’re excited to be able to release builds for PC to Insiders using UUP! Mobile builds are not impacted by this.

    The Unified Update Platform, you may recall, is a technology that reduces the amount of data necessary to install a new version of Win10 — for going from version 1511 to 1607, for example. Microsoft says UUP will reduce the download size by 35%. Frankly, that ain’t a big deal for me – after all, we only upgrade a couple times a year, and beta downloads are a pain anyway – but 35% reduction twice a year may be a big deal for you, and reducing the volume of bits rolling out certainly is a big gain for Microsoft.

    Anyway, Dona says we shouldn’t expect any more beta builds until the UUP framework is in place. No idea when that will happen.

    UPDATE: OK, I’m cynical about UUP (see the comments) but /r/jenmsft says the changes are exciting. You can judge for yourself.

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