We hope you are enjoying the current build of Windows Technical Preview. We promised you’ll get the latest build as soon as it’s available. Today we’re rolling out the first update: Windows Technical Preview build 9860. If you’re using the computer when the update downloads, you will be prompted to reboot after which you’ll see the “Installing your apps” screen, and then the new build will be ready to use. If you leave your computer plugged in and on overnight, the update will be installed automatically. Once installed, the build number displayed on the desktop will be 9860. More information about build 9860 can be found here but some of the new features include: New notifications through Action Center Move apps to other monitors with new keyboard shortcut Choose how quickly you receive new builds Please keep letting us know what you think! We are using your feedback to build Windows 10. ================================================================= Updated on 24 Oct 2014 ================== Thank you, everyone, for letting us know about your experiences with our latest build! This has been a great discussion, and we’re reading every message! To that end, this thread has served its purpose of announcing the new Windows build, and will now be closed. To make it easier for everyone to get help with their individual issues in the latest version of Tech Preview, we encourage you to either join an existing thread focused on your specific issue, or create a thread of you own if one doesn’t already exist. Please keep the feedback coming!

Why do I get Activate Windows on a technical preview? i recently updated , and then it asks me to Activate the windows, then i restart.. and its fine, then after a few hours AGAIN ! Please help

As a developer for many many years I am appalled at how bad this update is. I know this is a technical preview but MS need shooting for this rubbish... in fact I am seriously considering dropping MS completely and selling both my surface pcs and my Windows phone... you really need to vastly improve your game plan MS... get some serious controls into your testing programme MS dont be such a cheapskate and rely on the world.... VERY BAD MS... VERY BAD my experience: I am in the UK and yesterday onto my Surface Pro 3 512GB I managed to download and install 3860... both wifi networks I have had no internet connectivity.... network helper failed to find or fix anything today i decided to try to refresh my settings... lost a bunch of apps in doing so but my wifi network connectivity seemed ok... then i noticed ... ive reverted back to the previos build... oh is that whAT refresh does? ... but hang on... i have no history that i applied an os update .. and preview build tells me that there is NO update available... has MS pulled this **** already???? withoutr ANY comments.... feedback methinks.... oh ****... microsoft feedback app does nothing switches from blue to black dos like box... more MS ****.... SACK THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT TEAM MS... DONT PUT THIS **** OUT UNTIL EVERYTHING IS FIXED....

Works perfectly! Today noticed this? :-)

Just installed another update, and the issue is gone. Weird.

Rebooting the VM and trying the install again, I'm getting the familiar Windows Update failure error: 0x80240016 as seen below (you can clearly see my virtual machine stopped responding): Double clicking the icon at the top left corner to perform a hard shutdown was the only way to get rid of the box. I'm afraid this might have caused my VM to be bricked permanently - please help me asap!

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We hope you are enjoying the current build of Windows Technical Preview. We promised you’ll get the latest build as soon as it’s available. Today we’re rolling out the first update: Windows Technical Preview build 9860.

If you’re using the computer when the update downloads, you will be prompted to reboot after which you’ll see the “Installing your apps” screen, and then the new build will be ready to use. If you leave your computer plugged in and on overnight, the update will be installed automatically. Once installed, the build number displayed on the desktop will be 9860.

More information about build 9860 can be found here but some of the new features include:

New notifications through Action Center
Move apps to other monitors with new keyboard shortcut
Choose how quickly you receive new builds

Please keep letting us know what you think! We are using your feedback to build Windows 10.

=================================================================

Updated on 24 Oct 2014

==================

Thank you, everyone, for letting us know about your experiences with our latest build! This has been a great discussion, and we’re reading every message! To that end, this thread has served its purpose of announcing the new Windows build, and will now be closed.

To make it easier for everyone to get help with their individual issues in the latest version of Tech Preview, we encourage you to either join an existing thread focused on your specific issue, or create a thread of you own if one doesn’t already exist.

Please keep the feedback coming!

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2014-10-22T19:30:07+00:00

Why do I get Activate Windows on a technical preview?

i recently updated , and then it asks me to Activate the windows, then i restart.. and its fine, then after a few hours AGAIN ! Please help
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2014-10-22T19:26:13+00:00

As a developer for many many years I am appalled at how bad this update is.

I know this is a technical preview but MS need shooting for this rubbish... in fact I am seriously considering dropping MS completely and selling both my surface pcs and my Windows phone... you really need to vastly improve your game plan MS... get some serious controls into your testing programme MS dont be such a cheapskate and rely on the world....

VERY BAD MS... VERY BAD

my experience:

I am in the UK and yesterday onto my Surface Pro 3 512GB I managed to download and install 3860...

both wifi networks I have had no internet connectivity.... network helper failed to find or fix anything

today i decided to try to refresh my settings... lost a bunch of apps in doing so but my wifi network connectivity seemed ok... then i noticed ... ive reverted back to the previos build... oh is that whAT refresh does? ... but hang on... i have no history that i applied an os update .. and preview build tells me that there is NO update available... has MS pulled this **** already???? withoutr ANY comments....

feedback methinks.... oh ****... microsoft feedback app does nothing switches from blue to black dos like box... more MS ****.... SACK THE WHOLE DEVELOPMENT TEAM MS... DONT PUT THIS **** OUT UNTIL EVERYTHING IS FIXED....
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2014-10-22T19:25:00+00:00

Works perfectly! Today noticed this? :-)
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2014-10-22T19:11:43+00:00

Just installed another update, and the issue is gone.

Weird.
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Anonymous

2014-10-22T19:10:06+00:00

Rebooting the VM and trying the install again, I'm getting the familiar Windows Update failure error:

0x80240016

as seen below (you can clearly see my virtual machine stopped responding):

Double clicking the icon at the top left corner to perform a hard shutdown was the only way to get rid of the box. I'm afraid this might have caused my VM to be bricked permanently - please help me asap!
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