Today Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 14371 to Insiders on the the Fast Ring and, while it had a long list of fixes included, it only had one new feature added however, this feature promises to help users minimize activation issues which can be a source of frustration.
We are at the point in the development of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, just five weeks from the expected release date on 29 July 2016, that in the past there has been a slowing down of builds and new features to the operating system update.
Apparently the new Microsoft is changing even more than it has because we have had a total of nine new builds released to testers in June alone. There have been five for PCs and four on the mobile side.
So let's start with a little Windows 10 history.
Here on SuperSite: Windows the time leading up to the initial release of Windows 10 last July was full of questions about licensing, activations, what hardware changes would trigger re-validation of the license and other concerns when it came to the actual upgrade process for Windows 7/8.1 devices to the new operating system.
We learned a lot along the way about the Digital Entitlement and the critical necessity to perform an upgrade to Windows 10 first before any clean installs so that the hardware would have the right Digital Entitlement for activation. That was even more critical because at that time users were not allowed to use their Windows 7/8.1 product keys to activate Windows 10 on their devices.
