Windows 10 Cumulative Update 14939.3 - Is Redstone Ready ?

Late on Friday, MS released a cumulative update to Windows 10 Build 14393 which bumped the version to 14393.3.

 14393.3 addressed the following specific issues.

  • We have fixed an issue where keyboard input on some Windows tablet devices would not rotate to landscape normally.
  • We have fixed an issue that results in Windows Updates being delayed on systems with Connected Standby.
  • We have fixed a problem with text input with Korean Input Method Editor (IME) in some Store apps.
  • We fixed an issue causing Store apps to stop launching due to a licensing issue. 
  • We have fixed an issue with apps that synchronize using DDE for inter-process communication


As always I install the update across desktop, laptop, tablet and phone platforms and in all cases the update was smooth.  On my Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet I was not experiencing the keyboard issue described.  And on any platform I was not experiencing any Store crashes.

 I can report on Mobile that an update to the Mail & Calendar app has corrected the inaccurate count of unread emails on the live tile.  

 Some clipboard problems in Mobile however still exist.  There is some improvement in that I can clip from apps like Edge and Word for example and paste into Cortana, but any clips from Outlook don't work.    

This week a lot of the MS watchers were calling 14393 the Redstone 1 Release build, but I don't think so with this update.   

 While this update definitely follows the production release update numbering scheme and rhythm - so a .x following the release build number, I can't believe that MS would have current branch users running 10586.494 receive both the 14393 full upgrade then immediately have to apply the 6.2MB cumulative update and perform an extra reboot.  

 So I am actually thinking that this cumulative update may have simply been a test of the cumulative update process for Redstone.  Just to make sure it would work properly going forward.

 So my bet is that we may see one last build 14400 on Tuesday - 1 week before Anniversary date that will be the production build.

 Bottom line is that 14393.3 does address some issues but I don't believe that 14393 + the cumulative update is what MS will release.  We'll see if I'm right next week.







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