Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14951 for Mobile and PC (Fast Ring Insiders)

Windows 10 Blogs ^ | Oct 19, 2015 | Dona Sarkar

[dayglored]

Hello Windows Insiders!

Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14951 for Mobile and PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring.

What’s new in Build 14951

• Refining the customization experience for precision touchpad (PC)
• Windows Ink Improvements (PC)
• We are also introducing Stencils
• [ADDED] Inking in Photos
• Simplified, more familiar camera interface (PC & Mobile)
• Simplifying your developer experience (PC)
• Narrator improvements
• Windows Subsystem for Linux:
  • Official Ubuntu 16.04 support
  • Windows / WSL interoperability
• Other improvements and fixes for Mobile (list)
• Other improvements and fixes for PC (long list)
• Known issues for Mobile
• Known issues for PC
• Upcoming Bugbash
• Team Updates

[The above is wildly excerpted]

[dayglored]

For those of us on the Windows Insider Fast Ring, another release of the Preview Builds to play with...!

[dayglored]

Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14951... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

[dayglored]

Note: This is mainly for Windows 10 developers and users who just HAVE to be on the bleeding edge of Win10.

For the rest of Windows users, this is probably of limited (or less) interest. You'll see the results of this later in the formal consumer/business releases.

[topspinr]

https://microsoftmerchandise.com/Shop#/product/Search/MIC011193-Windows-Insider-T-shirt-Blk

[dayglored]

Nice!

[smokingfrog]

Ubuntu support?

Interesting ....

[dayglored]

> Ubuntu support? Interesting ....

Extremely. Win10 allows you to run the Bash shell, PowerShell has OpenSSH support, there's all sorts of cool interoperability going on.

My personal opinion is that Microsoft at LONG last realized that they don't own the entire world, and they better start cooperating with those who own the rest of it, or else they will lose the part they still have a grip on. Especially in the cloud, where they got their asses handed to them by Linux-based cloud providers.

Did you know that the Windows Update servers are (or at least, were until recently) hosted on Akamai's farm, which is Linux? Microsoft switched them over a few years back, when a large Windows Update demand crashed their Windows Server based farm. Akamai provided more robust Linux-based hosting and (as far as I know) Microsoft still uses them for WinUpdate and similar large-load tasks. Many of us got a good chuckle out of that, since (as I vaguely recall) it happened under Ballmer.

[SoFloFreeper]

I gotta tell ya, what our team has had trouble with is anomalies detected in the axionic deflector generators. Our best option in development has been to try iconic subinterlink with the bioregenerative dynoscanner and transporter nodes with electronic sub-transponders.

But what do I know?

[MEG33]

That sounds right!
;o)

[folkquest]

They make better use of dilithium crystals too...

[SoFloFreeper]

Guess that goes without saying though.

[GingisK]

Then there are us Linux folks who don’t have to worry about any of that bloatware.

[Tanniker Smith]

For the rest of Windows users, this is probably of limited (or less) interest.

Thank you! That was the key piece of info I was looking for. :)

[The Toad]

Windows 10 has got to be one of the worst OS releases in decades. As a software engineer, it has cause a lot of problem on a lot of machines. I wonder what they’ll break in the next release....

[dayglored]

> Then there are us Linux folks who don’t have to worry about any of that bloatware

True, but we have to be on the lookout for Dirty COWs...

You -have- patched your Linux box(es) within the last couple days, right? :-)

[dayglored]

> I gotta tell ya, what our team has had trouble with is anomalies detected in the axionic deflector generators. Our best option in development has been to try iconic subinterlink with the bioregenerative dynoscanner and transporter nodes with electronic sub-transponders.

My beeber is stuned by your brilliant analysis.

> But what do I know?

You clearly have your finger on the pulse.

[dayglored]

> Windows 10 has got to be one of the worst OS releases in decades. As a software engineer, it has cause a lot of problem on a lot of machines. I wonder what they’ll break in the next release....

Hey, it's better than Win 8...

I get a kick out of the fact that they're trumpeting as "great new features" some things that ought to be standard (and in a few cases, used to be standard).

At least they admit openly that Win10 is a constant work-in-progress / moving target rather than a defined product. I'm still trying to get Edge to do things that Internet Explorer did years ago... never mind FireFox...

[dayglored]

>> For the rest of Windows users, this is probably of limited (or less) interest.

> Thank you! That was the key piece of info I was looking for. :)

Yep, saved you (and likely some others) from having to write, "What the heck do I need to know this for???" :-)

[deoetdoctrinae]

I was just doing some updates on my W95 desktop, when it overheated and went blank. I suspect the dilithium crystals have completely fused. The bad news is, my parts department has no spares!

[SoFloFreeper]

Vey series.