Windows 10 Build 14390 - a one fix Build ?

Today July 15, MS released Windows 10 Build 14390 for both PC & Mobile to Fast Ring Insiders.  

 From the announcement of the release - this build appears to have corrected just 1 issue on PC 
  • You should no longer see the error code 0x80004005 when enabling Developer Mode on the “For Developers” Settings page if your PC is using a non-EN-US language.
and listed none for Mobile.  

There were a few known issues that were not repaired - such as an Hyper-V issue impacting Windows 2016 Tech Preview VMs with Secure Boot enabled for PC and some Voice Recorder and Wallet issues for Mobile.  But these have been out there for a couple of weeks now.

The announcement also seemed to indicate that additional builds are coming - which surprised me.  I'm all for addressing issues and issuing builds that reflect the fixes, but it seems a little odd to get a build for what appears to be a single issue fix.  

MS also issued the July firmware updates for Surface devices today as well - so this build may have contained some OS fixes tied to that firmware update - but they weren't called out. 

As always I installed on a desktop, laptop, tablet and mobile and installs were easy breezy.  I did not experience the noted issue and so no response on the fix.

On a comical note - MS also announced that they expect to miss their 1B Windows 10 device goal in mid FY18.  What makes it comical is that MS called out their change in Mobile direction as one the factors for the miss.   MS has never sold more than 20M phones in any one year and I bet for FY16 - which just ended that number was more like 8M or less.  So effectively a rounding factor.   I can't believe that back when MS was developing this goal that they expected to sell like 100M phones or something in 2.5 years.  

There are however some industry observers that expect the pace of Windows 10 upgrades to fall off a cliff after Aug 2.  

Well I'm not so sure about that.

At the MS Worldwide Partner Conference (WWPC) held this week in Toronto, MS mentioned that nearly 90% of enterprise customers are in some form of pilot with Windows 10.  And there have been some recent large customers promoting the move as quickly as possible.  

With every major Windows release - MS has always sponsors a 3rd party company - typically Forrester Research - to perform an ROI study and Windows 10 is no different.  For Windows 10 Forrester calls out a $404 ROI over 3 years.

I always take these studies with a huge grain of salt since many of the savings factors are what I call "soft".  Meaning, their based on certain productivity improvement factors that are hard to measure and often not realized.

What is driving enterprise customers to Windows 10 is security.  Windows is inherently more secure than Windows 7 and Windows 10 takes advantage of modern hardware much better.

So while there may a drop off in consumer upgrades, I expect to see more and more enterprises start upgrading.  

 Many enterprises extended their use of Windows XP way too long when Vista didn't pan out and then scrambled and paid too much to upgrade to Windows 7. And with Windows 8 being a bust like Vista was, Enterprises are now going to begin to switch to Windows 10.  Especially since it is now a year old and Redstone is getting the thumbs up from IT folk.

So bottom line - a new build today that seemed to address 1 specific fix.  We'll see how many more between now an Aug 2.   My guess is build 14400 will be the release build.






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