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Windows 10 will launch this summer

(29/07/2015): @janemccallion: Windows 10 will launch in the UK and 189 other this summer, Microsoft has announced. The company has given no exact date, however earlier rumours suggested the OS would be with OEMs by June and Windows 10 devices available to buy in the back-to-school period. It also raises questions over whether or not a Consumer Preview will be made available before the general release.

Microsoft to kill off recovery images in Windows 10

(17/03/2015): @janemccallion: It seems that saving disk space has become a new obsession of Microsoft's with Windows 10, according to a new blog post. The company has apparently made some recovery "enhancements" that differ quite significantly to that seen in Windows 8 and 8.1. Instead of having a separate recovery image, which takes up disk space, Windows 10 will use runtime system files to rebuild the OS when the Refresh and Reset function is used.
Aside from changes to the way system recovery is carried out, Windows 10 will also compress system files. While, as Neowin points out, this isn't exactlycompletely innovative, given Windows system files have been compresse since XP, Microsoft claims to have created a new, more efficient compression algorithm that can give back about 1.5GB storage to the 32-bit version of Windows 10 and 2.6GB to the 64-bit version.

Microsoft has explained why Windows 10 Technical preview updates haven't been releasing as quickly as Insiders would like

(10/03/2015): Vaughn Highfield: Writing on Microsoft's official blog, engineering general manager Gabe Aul tackled the topic of why Windows 10 Technical Preview builds have been releasing so slowly. In short, it seems that Microsoft is playing it a little too safe.
"We’ve probably been too conservative about pushing builds to the Fast ring for Windows Insiders," admitted Aul. "The reality is that faster builds to you will include more bugs, and so far we’ve erred on the side of stability."
For those who don't know, Microsoft has a "Fast" ring and a "Slow" ring for Insiders to recieve updates. Those who want to recieve the more unstable builds first can snap them up straight away, while those more interested in stability can download it later. Currently there's little difference between the two.

"We’ve not had as much distinction between Fast and Slow," explained Aul. "In our internal rings, our Canary ring probably sees 2X-3X as many builds as OSG because we catch problems in Canary and don’t push to OSG."
It appears we should still expect new builds to come down every month or so, but it doesn't always happen that way.
Microsoft doesn't want to disappoint either, and that's why it hasn't placed concrete dates on build updates. Leaving things open-ended actually means the team are more driven to improve rather than hit targets and ship updates regularly.
So what is actually happening at Redmond then?
Well, Microsoft is just going with it's "ring" process and when something's ready it'll go out to Insiders. Not the most helpful bit of information, but with regular feedback through the Microsoft blog, at least we're not being left completely in the dark.
(23/02/2015): @janemccallion: A fistful of screenshots allegedly from Windows 10 Technical Preview build 10022 have leaked online. As with the previous information about build 10022 (see 23 February), the leaks come from Russian site Wzor and, once again, don't really show anything massively new, other than the build number.

What does this mean then? Well there are three options really: build 10022 is mainly about bug fixes and enhancements rather than new features, these are pictures of an early version of the build, or the images are fake.
PC Pro is unable to confirm which, if any, of these possibilities is true. But with the next version of Windows 10 Technical Preview expected within the next four weeks we should find out soon enough.

Spartan coming with next Technical Preview

(02/03/2015): According to The Verge, Spartan, the new browser which is one of the nicest-looking features of Windows 10, will be making its public debut in the next Technical Preview for Windows Insiders. This is apparently coming this month.

Is Windows 10 Consumer Preview already with OEMs?

(23/02/2015): @janemccallion: Pictures of two new Windows 10 preview builds have leaked online, one for enterprise and one for consumers.
The images were posted by Russian leakers WZor on Twitter, although they don't really show very much apart from the build numbers - 10022 and 10014 - with the former coming from the consumer build stream and the latter from the enterprise build stream.

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