Windows 10 Anniversary Update

The Windows 10 Major Update's desktop

### End of Support

10th April 2018 (For Home and Pro SKUs)9th April 2019 (For Education and Enterprise SKUs)

13th October 2026 (LTSB and IoT)

## Download

### Beta(s)

Pre-Insider Preview Insider Preview Pre-RTM

The Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released on 2nd August 2016, to celebrate Windows 10's first anniversary from the previous year of release (29th July 2015) and included new features and changes, such as major updates to the Action Center, a new QR code added into the Blue Screen of Death (System crash), changed placeholder icons, improvements to Cortana, improved Universe Debugging support, updated Start Menu for farther and improved shortcuts with the user icon moving down to the shortcut icons (instead from the top of the Start Menu) with including reworks to Settings, to the Insider Program (Insider Preview builds were shipped with Fast Ring, Slow Ring and Release channels), with also lots of updates to the handwriting panel, input and touch. This Update introduced lots of new improvements also to OneCore and UX Improvements and new features and changes to Microsoft Edge, including the ability to pin tabs and rate them. Microsoft Rewards were also implemented during that update, but they were only out in a few markets.

Many leftovers were also fixed in this build, including more changed Control Panel icons, moving the normal Personalization applet entirely to Settings, including the theme icon pack dialog to Settings and removing lots of incosistency starting with this update, making Windows 10 to be slowly feature complete. Confusion with Snipping Tool has been also improved starting with this build, with the introduction of Snip & Sketch and entirely changing the Sticky Notes app for more consistency and to match with the Metro of Windows 10. The leftover were sometimes when enabling the light theme, with the colored title bar, title bar colors will changed to black, which was fixed starting with this update, with integration or introduction of the Dark and Light themes or (Optional) themes (make taskbar appearance Dark for example and make windows appear Light).

The Anniversary Update's Server Counterpart (vNext) is called Windows Server 2016, instead of Windows Server, version 1607, which Windows announced it will be released after Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server MPS 2012, since it was finished during the development of the Anniversary Update (close to its release at that kind of time).

Many SKUs also, including the China and Team SKUS (With K, KN and N) starting with this update were implemented and is also the first major update to introduce extended client support for Enterprise and Education SKUs. Mainstream (Limited client support) will be still available only for Home and Pro SKUs. Also LTSB (Long Term Support Base) has been implemented for way longer support with security updates in every SKU. IoT support (Internet of thing) support has been also implemented, with internet core that has also a lot of extended support for the PC, similar to LTSB.

Starting with this major update, the codename has also entirely changed from Threshold to Redstone and will be kept until the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, and many applications (sports and money) were removed, including the Briefcase program for more constistency of the Windows 10 UI.

In 2021, after the release of Windows 11 (or before release {development}), then LTSB and IoT support was also implemented for Windows 10's original release (Threshold 1) and normally it will be out of support on 14th October 2025.

## List of Available and Confirmed builds

### Insider Preview

* 11082
* 11099
* 11101
* 11102
* 11103
* 11103.1000
* 11103.1000 (KB Updated)
* 11105.1000
* 11106.1000
* 11107
* 14251
* 14254
* 14257
* 14257.1000
* 14259
* 14261
* 14262.1004
* 14267
* 14267.1002
* 14271
* 14272
* 14273
* 14273.1001
* 14276
* 14278
* 14278.1002
* 14278.1005
* 14279
* 14280.1000
* 14281
* 14281 (onecore)
* 14283
* 14283.1006 (onecore)
* 14284
* 14284 (onecore)
* 14287 (onecore)
* 14291 (onecore)
* 14291.1001
* 14292
* 14293
* 14295
* 14295.1000 (prs)
* 14295.1004
* 14295.1005
* 14300
* 14301 (onecore)
* 14302 (onecore)
* 14304 (onecore)
* 14305 (onecore)
* 14306 (onecore)
* 14308 (onecore)
* 14309 (onecore)
* 14310 (onecore)
* 14310 (shell)
* 14311 (winpen)
* 14312 (onecore)
* 14316
* 14316.1001
* 14317
* 14322
* 14325 (onecore)
* 14327 (winpen)
* 14328
* 14332
* 14332 (onecore)
* 14336
* 14337
* 14337 (sigma onecore)
* 14342
* 14342.1001
* 14342.1002
* 14346
* 14347
* 14349
* 14350
* 14351
* 14352
* 14352.1002
* 14354
* 14355
* 14355 (prs)
* 14357
* 14357.1001
* 14359
* 14360 (onecore)
* 14361
* 14361.1000 (prs)
* 14363
* 14366
* 14366 (onecore)
* 14367
* 14369
* 14370
* 14371
* 14371.2
* 14371.1000
* 14372
* 14374
* 14376
* 14378 (onecore)
* 14379
* 14383
* 14383 (KB Updated)
* 14385
* 14387
* 14388
* 14390

## References

1.How to get the Windows 10 Anniversary Update | Windows Experience Blog

2.Windows 10 Anniversary Update is now available - MSPoweruser

3.(993) Windows 10 Anniversary Update - Official Release Demo (Version 1607) - YouTube