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Orlando, Florida – Here at Microsoft Ignite, a common thread across most product groups these days is an insider, early access or preview access to software and services while they are in the development pipeline. Microsoft isn’t the first company to do this, Google is famously known for their permanent beta’s, but it seems to have become the norm for product teams at the Redmond company.
We just passed the three-year anniversary of the initial release of Windows 10 back in July 2015. If the old days of Windows development were still around, we would just barely be poking around a new version of Windows right about now. Instead, we have seen Microsoft publicly develop and build five feature updates with the sixth, the October 2018 Update, due to be released in the very near future.
Since many of us have seen the incremental progress of Windows 10 through these feature updates, the changes are not as obvious to us as they might be to other customers just migrating to...