Windows 10: Release Preview "Ring" does exist!

I got on a crusade and finally got there! Kept wondering what the "Release Preview" ring looked like if you could get there from here. Here's how I spent my morning...

Installed VMware. Created a VM on an ext 3.0 and installed 10240, fresh from MS, using a NEW Outlook account. Let it go thru all it's gyrations and it upgraded to 10586.104. Activated it with original OEM key. Clicked "Get Insider Builds". Went thru some hoop-jumping, re-booted, and this is what I got. Guess it works....have to fire up the VM occasionally to see if any updates.

:)

 

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318 is the current production release. it came to your phone via the insider program release preview ring, not via the production releases.

 

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Lots of thanks!

 

As far as I can remember, that screenshot you posted has been in existence way before the " Release Preview Ring" was announced.

I don't think that is it.
There is no mention of "Release Preview" anywhere in that page.

 

You might want to look a little closer, David.

 

Right above the Blue slider......

 

Thank you. Should have zoomed your screenshot for reading.
Your screenshot shows the words "Release Preview :"
I don't have that above the blue slider.
Mine said.....................
Fast: Best for Insiders who enjoy being the first to identify issues, provide suggestions, and ideas to make Window devices great.

And, I am now download the new Insider Preview 14271.

 

I understand. This was only a test, on my part, on a separate OS, to see if I could get the "current" branch (10240 & 10586) to give the new option of Release Preview. Anything past 10586 will not see this, not supposed to. This relatively new, last couple weeks. It's in Gabe's blog here.... Announcing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 10586.107 | Windows Experience Blog

 

............. Anything past 10586 will not see this, not supposed to.......................

Now I am more confused than when I first read about the Release Preview from the other thread.
That thread was posted when most of use Insiders have already 10586 installed.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexp...ild-10586-107/

 

What is the confusing part? It's plain and simple: The Release Preview ring is only visible and available to Insiders who have the latest official build released for the general public ("outsiders"*Wink) installed. At the moment it is the TH2 v.1511.

Selecting the Release Preview ring does not download nor does it let user to upgrade to the latest Fast or Slow ring builds but will only receive updates to the current build not yet released to the general public. In other words, whereas the Slow and Fast rings are to test new versions of Windows 10 (new builds), the Release Preview is to test new updates for the latest official build.

 

The confusing part is ............... my Insider Preview is 14267 rs1_release. 160213-0213
Yet I don't see the Release Preview in my Advanced options page.

And my Win 10 RTM is th2_release 10586

 

Get a whisky, coffee or any beverage you'd prefer, enjoy it a moment or two, relax and reset the brain, lean back in your chair and read again the first paragraph of my previous post:

 

Does that mean..................
If I started with Win 10 version TH2 v.1511, and then switched to Insider Preview program, then and only then I would see the Release Preview Ring ?

 

David, I think that is correct. That's why I followed the path I did to "test" it. I have no intention of taking my working 10586 and putting it on Insider, so a test approach clean install of "current" public, then switch to Insider.

 

OK. Thank you.

Today is the FIRST time I understood what the Release Preview announcement is all about.

English is my 3rd language. I said that some time ago.
Sometimes a simple statement may not be so simple to me. It is not automatic and natural for me.