Insider Program

The Windows Insider Program shown in Settings

## Introduction

The Windows Insider program is a section most known in the application Settings. To get here, you need to go to Settings > Windows Update > Windows Insider Program in Windows 11 and 10.

## Channels

In the Insider Program, there are 3 known channels that build development into a new major update, with Feedback Hub being mostly your application to give feedback to new features and bugs. Even though, Insider Preview has been in hands, since Fall 2014, under the name of "Technical Preview" and didn't have any channel that you can use. The name has changed from "Insider Preview" in build 9879, but has returned back to "Technical Preview' in build 9888. In build 10074, the "Insider Preview" naming has returned back, within its new branding. As things then die with the Windows Insider Program, during the development of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Channels were implemented.

List of Channels:

Dev - (Fast Ring in Windows 10) This channel receives builds before they're tested by the Microsoft Team and includes all of the new features and changes before they're thrown to the Beta and Release Channels. This channel will also receive many new bugs, performance issues, stability problems and issues with the experience. It's not recommended to upgrade to Dev, except if your a collector of bugs and want to give hundreds of feedback to the Feedback Hub.

Beta - (Slow Ring in Windows 10) This channel receives builds after they're tested by the Microsoft Team and includes loads of new features that will be put in the RTM or change for the time until Release. This channel will also receive less bugs, better performance, better stability and better experience. It's recommended to upgrade to Beta if you want to, before the release this time. In Beta, there are still loads of bugs, but are more rare to see in the Slow Ring (Beta) Channel as all of the common issues could be fixed in each build at any occasion.

Release - (Release Ring in Windows 10) This channel receives builds that don't have a timebomb and watermark, including Escrow builds. It fixes all known experienced issues and bugs known with interface and its recommended to upgrade to show advertisments for these big updates before they're thrown to the public.

## "Technical Preview"

Technical Preview was the older version of Insider Preview and didn't use to have a channel at all, instead you needed to download the build's ISO or check Windows Update in builds 9841 or higher for a new build for Technical Preview to be implemented. It was then later replaced with the name of "Insider Preview", as it matches the machine of getting inside and getting used to the future of Windows with the new major updates early in space and the name of "Inside Windows" (secretly known when seeing one of the Windows 11 Insider advertisements) which could be the other thing that it could be replaced and renamed to "Insider Preview". Otherwise Inisder Preview was here for a long time in just 7 years, which is a crazy experience of how much it evolved with more smartness and new channels, including the change of the nija cat to the 3 people getting close together icon, things are always changing in Windows.

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