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It takes only 6 seconds to boot and we even have the Avast antivirus program on it that probably adds a second to the boot. The 10240 build feels stable, just as good as the last few versions and we didn’t had any performance and stability issues. The preview release might end up being Release to Manufacturing, but we would not be surprised to get another update before things are locked down. We don’t know what is up with that as even when we try to look for an update from 10166 to 10240, it doesn’t tell us that there is one available. We have two machines that we use to test Windows 10 and only one of them received an update. It mentions four changes which it thinks are important including Photos, Music, Microsoft Edge and Movies & TV applications. Microsoft takes time to tell you about what is new in Windows 10. In addition it will ask you if your computer is allowed to connect to known networks and a few other things. This is the sort of thing that Windows 8.1 asks you when you are finishing the installation.

One other thing that happened is what Microsoft has updated its licensing agreement and asked us to confirm the settings about location, advertising and a few other things.

TH1 is the branch that is testing the RTM candidates and one of our computers is part of that. This is no big deal and exactly what you would expect from the final version.The update is called TH1 and WinBeta claims that the beta testers were moved from fbl_impressive branch, to the TH1 branch. Now you have to type winver in run menu to get the version number. The most notable thing you will notice is that the preview release number above the clock in the lower right corner has gone. There are no indications that anything major was changed as the last steps are usually polishing and bug fixing. The new version of Windows doesn’t really feel that much different from the last insider builds 10166 or 10162 that we recently tested.
