If you’re beta testing Win10, you probably want to change branches

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Microsoft just posted a warning that it’s about to change the meaning of the different branches. I love it when that happens. Per Brandon LeBlanc: Now
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Shouldn’t your SLOW item say that you’ll start getting the 19H2 (1909) test builds later this spring?

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That’s an open question. At this point, all we know for sure is that, in the near term, Slow will be receiving 1903 betas.

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I though SLOW was already getting 19H1 (1903) test builds?

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It is.

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In recent years, Microsoft has changed the names, branches, scheduling, lifetime, etc. etc. etc. of so many aspects of Windows so many times, that I can no longer decide whether this is due to sheer incompetence; to massive and widespread ADHD at the top of the company; or to a deliberate strategy to get customers to throw their hands up in despair. I used to think it was a symptom of the “MTV Generation,” but am no longer so sure.

 

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In a nutshell:

Slow and Rollup Preview are for 1903. Presumably at some point Slow will start getting builds of… we don’t know what.

Fast is for 2003.

If you install a 2003 beta build and want to go back to 1903 or 1909, you have to wipe out your machine.

 

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