The Takeaway: As Windows 10 rollout nears, Microsoft halts preview releases

14.07.2015
Early-bird Windows 10 testers won't be getting new preview builds of the operating system for the time being because the company has stopped deliveries to focus on distribution issues.

Microsoft now says it's "very close" to finishing up work on the operating system, which makes sense -- it's set to arrive on July 29, two weeks from tomorrow.

"We're suspending the availability of Windows 10 builds briefly while we prepare for [the official roll-out process], and the next build that we flight to you will be delivered using the production channels," Gabriel Aul, engineering general manager for Microsoft's OS group, wrote yesterday in an updated blog. "...We're working very hard to get everything just right."

Aul said the suspension will be short-lived, but noted that disk images used by testers for a "clean" install of Windows 10 will also be deferred. He urged testers to concentrate on "using, stressing, and validating our distribution and upgrade processes."

Here's what the latest move means for Windows 10 preview users:

Although a Microsoft official said Monday that no Windows 10-powered PCs would be available for sale on the July 29, Microsoft later reversed itself, saying that OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) including Dell, Acer, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo, would begin selling Windows 10 devices that day.

With reports by Gregg Keizer at Computerworld.

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Ken Mingis

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