#WINDOWS 10 BUILD 10240. INSTALL#

Today marks two weeks until launch, and the RTM build (if this is it) will be shipped to OEMs to use as the basis for them to install on new hardware. On phones, the mobile name is not necessary since you canвЂ™t have both installed anyway. The touch first versions of Office have been available on Windows 10 for a while now, and they have now dropped the preview moniker but gained the Mobile name to distinguish them from the desktop counterparts. IвЂ™m downloading the latest build now so once completed IвЂ™ll compare it to the numbers we saw in January to see what kind of increases in performance (if any) have been made in the last six months. This is in line with what I tested back in January when the Edge rendering and ECMAScript engines could be enabled inside of Internet Explorer 11. One thing that they did say is that their new browser, Microsoft Edge, continues to receive performance updates and they show it faster than Chrome in several javascript benchmarks. The blog post doesnвЂ™t have much else in the way of details which makes sense since they have moved into a bug fixing phase rather than adding features.

Since it is in the slow ring, typically that means that there will be ISOs released but perhaps it is too early for that. Another point to make is that this build has been released to both the fast and slow rings at the same time, so clearly they have tested well internally. One obvious change that signals this is not a typical beta build is that the Windows Version watermark in the bottom right corner of the screen is now gone. The Verge reported earlier today that build 10240 would be the вЂњRTMвЂќ or вЂњRelease to ManufacturingвЂќ build and while that has not officially been announced, this build does take some big steps towards being less of a testing build and more of a release candidate. Today Microsoft unleased build 10240 to both the fast and slow rings for Windows Insiders.

Windows 10 build 10240.