Windows 10: Windows 10 Retail USB Stick

Why does the retail boxed version of Windows 10 still have build 10240? After installing the retail version from the bundled USB drive I still have to download a 3.5 GB update to build 10586 every time I reinstall from this read-only USB drive.

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Windows 10 retail USB installation stick

Is there a way to obtain a new firmware image tool for the Windows 10 retail USB installation stick to update it to build 14393? This USB stick is firmware locked in read-only mode and contains the original build 10240.

 

Windows 10 Retail Media

Hello Ruth:

Note that I did not buy a DVD. What I got was a really cheap USB stick and it was purchased at a Best Buy store. I had already downloaded and made a .iso disk with the media creator.

I was curious if the retail USB stick contained files or other data not available in the download version. The media creator disc is 3.10 GB and the USB stick is 6.70 GB so it would seem the retail version is different and contains data not included in
the download media creator version. I'm also curious that if the flimsy USB stick gets broken or possibly inadvertently erased will the activation key work with the downloaded .iso disc file. Is the Windows 10 installation contained on the USB stick different
than the media creator download version?

 

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1. How is Microsoft supposed to update a read-only USB drive that is in your possession?

2. Did you purchase the USB from Microsoft or a third party vendor after November 2015. Even is Microsoft produced retail USB drives that were updated to 10586.0 after the November release, there would still be a stock of the 10240 build flash drives at the vendors'/distributors' warehouses.

3. Microsoft isn't going to spend the money to unpackage and update the 10240 flash drives they had left over. They will simply start shipping the new build when the stock of the old build is depleted.