Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Slow Build 17074.1002 - Jan. 11 Insider

]Wzor and Buildfeed have absolutely no relationship with Microsoft, in no way can they be considered "semi-official" sites, IMO, in fact, the founder of Buildfeed has some "animosity" towards Microsoft, you can easily notice if you read some of the tweets he writes.

Be That as it may the Lead Presenter (sorry his name escapes) did say at the last he uploaded a build to buildfeed.net. Now one has to figure that was approved by his supervisor (guess we'll see at the next Insider broadcast.:) If M$ does not approve of buildfeed they certain have ways to take it down and stop the leaker(s).

As for WZOR - well a picture is worth a thousand words. D.S. certainly pals around with WZOR (many photos of them together on both their Twitter feeds which would be unlikely if he was pushing malware. In fact, his ISO's have an advantage over the "official" (and enormously outdated) Windows Insider Advanced Download site which is still at 17025. The combo disk can boot, and presumably install Windows Home, Windows Home N, Windows Pro or Windows Pro N.
I'm perfectly willing to boot the Disk and see if it will update and keep all my files and programs. Of course I "could" wait for the "official" ISO but I have no interest in running my computing life around Microsoft's schedule - it seems that several people on this forum are.

Also, the fact that in Buildfeed doesn't appear any "canary" build doesn't mean anything, as I said before, several times Microsoft has released builds that didn't appear in Buildfeed, this revision of build 17074, ie 17074.1002, did not appear in Buildfeed, it only appeared when Microsoft released it.

But 17074.1001 did appear on buildfeed. Several times MS has released a minor point increment without it first appearing on buildfeed.

Well how does he get these builds? Could it be that somebody working for Microsoft leaks the details of these builds? In fact they are marked "Private Leak". The fact of the matter is that we are getting less information from Microsoft. But it's OK others in the tech media have sources. Yes certainly the image I uploaded of Dona and Wzor is a collage but there are pictures of the two of them together which are not - Dona has posted a few of them.

martyfelker said:

Well how does he get these builds? Could it be that somebody working for Microsoft leaks the details of these builds? In fact they are marked "Private Leak". The fact of the matter is that we are getting less information from Microsoft. But it's OK others in the tech media have sources. Yes certainly the image I uploaded of Dona and Wzor is a collage but there are pictures of the two of them together which are not - Dona has posted a few of them.

Wzor has been the scourge of MS for a long time. I first got to know about him/them with Win 7.

Back then he/they would get copies of Windows releases distributed to the OEM's (for driver testing and the like) - the "insider" contact was thus with the OEM's not MS.
These copies would then be leaked to the public. MS didn't like this and instituted encrypted esd's with Win 8 (and beefed up security with each OEM distro having a hidden tracking code)

The good thing was the the iso's released were always genuine.