Hands On with Windows 10 (Redstone 2) Build 14926 for PC and Mobile

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

September 14, 2016

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Hands On with Windows 10 (Redstone 2) Build 14926 for PC and Mobile

 

After spending the last couple of weeks tweaking and updating their backend tools for managing various builds of Windows, Microsoft has released a much awaited build of Redstone 2 to members of the Windows Insider Program Fast Ring.

This build arrives 15 days after they provided Redstone 2 Build 14915 to testers back on 31 August and nearly a month after Build 14905 was shipped to Insiders on the 17th of August.

Check out our Windows 10 (Redstone 2) Build Tracker for PCs and Mobile

As for those of you who want two or three builds a week now, I am not expecting the pace to pickup to anywhere close to the number of builds we were seeing towards the end of the Anniversary Updates development this past June and July. However, now that they have got things where they want them on the server side, I wouldn't bet against a new release in the Redstone 2 development branch around every 10 days or so.

Redstone 2 Build 14926 is a milestone build of sorts as it has some of the first new features showing up on both PC and Mobile devices. This may very well be the beginning of us starting to see what Microsoft plans for the third major update of Windows 10 which is expected sometime in early 2017.

Until then we can at least give you a walk through of these latest updates so you can see where things are starting to head.

P.S. Be sure to check out the new Windows Anywhere settings page screenshot. It looks like that will be a future replacement for Sync your settings.

 

About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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