With Windows Insider preview build 17639, Skip Ahead testers are greeted with some spit and polish for some features that were in dire need of addressing.
Windows Insider lead Dona Sarkar took to her favorite announcement platform, Twitter to let Slow Ring Insiders know they grab and install build 17120 for their PCs.
The new build, not to be confused with last weeks Skip Ahead release 17618, brings Fast Ring Insiders still on Redstone 4 testing, a whole host of security-related features.
Windows 10 Insiders on the Skip Ahead release cycle will now be greeted with a preview that's finally bringing the long-awaited Sets feature to a wider audience than its last go around.
Insiders have been hit with a major spoiler alert about the latest preview build that includes the possible removal of the Windows Store entirely
Insiders are given a few cautions about some known issues, that most likely won't be addressed by the Windows team this weekend or before the next release.
In today's preview build 17083, Windows Shell improvements continue as well as gaining a slick new name, Focus Assist.
According to a memo that has gone out to the limited number of testers with access, the sought after features of Sets has gone through its testing paces and the Windows group has enough telemetry to shut down the project for now and not bring it back until some later date in the future.
As most developers can relate with, you don't fix that many things without unintentionally breaking a few other things in the process, which is why the Windows engineering team also issued a slightly shorter list of new known issues that come with preview 17074.
Folks using the Edge browser can now look forward to accessibility tweaks to the UI, updated Dark theme, improvements to the Fluent Design inspired Acrylic layout and more.
The Windows team is tossing in a complementary survey to gauge how they might deliver core OS apps to testers in the future.
The only other 2-in-1 form factor that has gained any sort of traction is the Surface Pro-like detachable and while Lenovo didn't pioneer this form factor it is looking to polish and refine the approach with its Mixx 720.
In a new YouTube video released by the Windows team, engineers are looking to keep up the level of activity
Head of the Windows Insider program Dona Sarkar tweeted a list of reasons on why builds break the once-a-week cadence
Seemingly overnight and without warning, the OneDrive team enacted (what is hopefully only testing) NTFS storage requirements
Alongside today's build release, Insiders are greeted with a community update
Windows 10 Insider build 15042 for PC brings improvements to the new Windows Defender built for the Universal Windows Platform.
The Windows team wants to go into the weekend offering eager Fast Ring Insiders a little present in the form of build 15042 for PCs
Microsoft will be holding a Windows 10 Insider Bug Bash in February, the second one held during the Windows 10 Creators Update Preview.
You could make quite the laundry list out of build 15007's tweaks and under-the-hood improvements.