• No, you don’t want KB3216755, the Insider Preview Ring version of the next cumulative update

    Posted on January 25, 2017 at 12:10 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Repeat after me: No, you don’t want the latest Release Preview of Windows 10.

    Last night, Microsoft rolled out KB3216755 for PCs and 14393.726 on Win10 Mobile. You will only see the patch in Windows Update if you’ve signed up for the Insider Program, and set your Insider ring to Release Preview.

    I’ve said it before, many times: The Release Preview ring is an arcane place. Unless you are specifically testing future Win10 cumulative updates for an overriding reason – perhaps you’re supporting or developing an application for Windows 10, or you’re charged with distributing cumulative updates to a zillion machines – you do NOT want to be on the Release Preview ring.

    In fact, the situation’s so confusing, I rate it as one of the top 6 things wrong with the Windows Insider program.

    4. Release Preview ring builds aren’t beta builds and need a different name

    No doubt it was easier for Microsoft to roll the Release Preview function into the Windows Insider beta build machine, but that commingling has led to endless confusion.

    On the one hand you have beta builds — test copies of the next version of Windows. Right now, those builds are numbered 14931, and they’ll keep getting larger.

    On the other hand, you have Release Preview builds — precursors to the next cumulative update for the current version of Windows.

    The Windows Insider program caters to both those who are beta testing the next version of Windows and those who are testing the next cumulative updates to the current version of Windows. You bet it’s confusing — and the discrepancy contributes to the “Release Preview and Slow ring” misidentification.

    The fixes distributed in KB 3216755 for PCs (and 14393.726 on Win10 Mobile) will show up, some day. They’ll likely emerge as the non-security part of Win10 1607’s next Patch Tuesday cumulative update. But unless you really want to be an unpaid beta tester, stumbling with known problems in KB 3216755, steer clear.

    Repeat after me: No, you don’t want the latest Release Preview of Windows 10.

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