Windows 10 Builds 15058 & 15060 - A group of quick fixes

During the week of March 13th - MS did two very quick Windows 10 releases - builds 15058 on the 14th followed by 15060 on the 16th to the Fast Ring. These were right behind 15055 that was released on Mar 10 - so literally 3 releases in less than a week.  These were PC only releases.   Mobile remains at 15055 for now.

 Both 15058 & 15060 did not contain a huge number of fixes when compared to some of the previous builds (less than 10 each), but did try to address some key issues that Insiders were experiencing with 15055 such as Login issues and Edge taking over key defaults from 3rd party tools.

 Both updates downloaded and installed cleanly across desktop, laptop and tablet.

 As I mentioned in my post on 15055 - while that build contained a lot of fixes it definitely felt like a step backwards from 15048 and 15058 & 15060 have tried to correct that.

 With that said - I can't say with 100% confidence that my systems run any better than they did with 15048 - which I thought may have been the actual release version.

 In fact I have the feeling that I will probably have to do a system reset shortly or wait for the ISO release of the actual Creators Update and perform a full rebuild to get all of the gremlins out that 15055 created.   It just doesn't feel as good.

 When you check Settings / System / About - you'll notice the Windows version as 1703 indicating and the build as 15060.0.  That means MS plans to release here in March.   Most likely the week of the 27th - 

 So with that said - we may run into the same thing we ran into with Anniversary release in that there may be some 15060.x builds as we run up to release.   And that in fact 15060 is the Creators Update.   

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