Windows 10 Anniversary Update Begins Official Roll Out

It is finally official.

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Windows 10 Version 1607 (OS Build 14393.10), is starting to appear on users systems as Microsoft begins the process of delivering the second major update for Windows 10 to over 350 million devices around the world.

Although we have known that Windows 10 Build 14393 would be the final build for the last couple of weeks, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update still received three cumulative updates over the last 10 days 14393.3, 14393.5 and 14393.10 to fix various bugs in the OS prior to today's official release.

Over the last eight months Microsoft has released 50 testing builds for Windows Insiders so that this update could be tested across a multitude of device configurations on both PCs and Mobile devices.

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During this past year, since Microsoft initially released Windows 10, the company has received over 75 million pieces of feedback that resulted in more than 5,000 changes to the operating system. The more than 350 million users have used the OS for over 135 billion hours and Windows Insiders themselves have been using the OS for the equivalent of more than 50,000 years.

That is plenty of telemetry and data points to strengthen this release and make it the best update for Windows 10 so far.

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Since this is a staged roll out not everyone will see it in their update channels at the same time so some patience is required because 350 million devices is a lot of end points to receive this upgrade via Windows Update.

However, there are some options to grab the new release ahead of that availability.

Windows 10 Anniversary Update Resources

Resources are also appearing across different Microsoft properties with the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update:

NOTE: Microsoft has stated that the Windows 10 roll out for mobile devices will happen in the coming weeks.

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