Hi Graham,
The evaluation watermark comes and goes
on Insider builds. It may have been removed
but I guess they decided to add it back.
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Hi Graham,
The evaluation watermark comes and goes
on Insider builds. It may have been removed
but I guess they decided to add it back.
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Years ago now, I remember a similar watermark in an Insider Program preview build. May have been in the early test versions of Windows 11. Then, after some other update, it disappeared and I forgot all about it. Suddenly, here it is again.
So many people misinterpret the meaning of the watermark that perhaps Microsoft should change the wording.
My guess is that "Evaluation Copy" sounds like we're getting a freebie OS just to help with testing. Like some goodie they handed out at a computer convention. Might be better to call it something like, "Windows Insider Beta test version xxxxxx."
(Sounds more cool rather than apologetic?)
Windows updated to new version so all good