Announcing Windows 10 Insider Slow Build 16251 PC Insider

CountMike said:

While you are with them, please ask them why did they cross the road.

Because there was a very tasty looking bug over there, of course. Everybody knows that. :)

I wanted to to test Windows 10 S now when it finally came officially available (read more), mainly to see if it, too can get Insider Preview builds. Windows 10 N versions aren't included in Insider program, I was almost sure the same would be with S versions.

Installed it now on laptop:



Idiot as I am, I instantly forgot what the S in version name indicates: Store apps only! Tried to install Screenpresso, my chosen screenshot tool, only to be reminded about the facts:



I was wrong, Insider Preview is available:



... although as there are no direct upgrade path from 15063 to 16251, I have to upgrade to 16241 first:



BTW, W10 S comes with the new brighter blue Hero wallpaper which might indicate it's coming to if not near future Insider builds but at least to version 1709.

Kari

Kari said:

I wanted to to test Windows 10 S now when it finally came officially available (read more), mainly to see if it, too can get Insider Preview builds. Windows 10 N versions aren't included in Insider program, I was almost sure the same would be with S versions.

Installed it now on laptop:



Idiot as I am, I instantly forgot what the S in version name indicates: Store apps only! Tried to install Screenpresso, my chosen screenshot tool, only to be reminded about the facts:



I was wrong, Insider Preview is available:



... although as there are no direct upgrade path from 15063 to 16251, I have to upgrade to 16241 first:



BTW, W10 S comes with the new brighter blue Hero wallpaper which might indicate it's coming to if not near future Insider builds but at least to version 1709.

Kari

@Kari Thanks for this info! Great that you tried this. Highly appreciated.

Kari said:

... although as there are no direct upgrade path from 15063 to 16251, I have to upgrade to 16241 first:
Kari

It is the same path for 15063.xxx to 16xxx on Windows 10 Pro. First comes 16241, then that one upgrades to 16251.
Upgrade incompatibility? They did change the update process in 16241. Maybe this is why.

I have my VMware finally set up with skip ahead.

swarfega said:

I have my VMware finally set up with skip ahead.

Great! Welcome to the club. :)
(except mine is in Hyper-V)

Thanks, its nice to be here.

Wasn't it 241 that first introduced the Skip Ahead option? That could be why the path is 16241 first, then 251. So to have a choice to > 251 with/without Skip. That's exactly what I did. Set one 241 to No-Skip one to Skip. Got 2 different releases.

f14tomcat said:

Wasn't it 241 that first introduced the Skip Ahead option? That could be why the path is 16241 first, then 251. So to have a choice to > 251 with/without Skip. That's exactly what I did. Set one 241 to No-Skip one to Skip. Got 2 different releases.

Yes they did introduce Skip Ahead in 241, but I did Skip Ahead in 251.0 in my VM, now it's 16251. 1000 :)