New Windows 10 preview build has a very different build number, but not much else

A new Windows 10 insider version has been released.

The new build doesn't bring much that you'll notice. Microsoft for the past few months has been updating and refining the processes used to build and develop Windows 10 to better meet the needs of a continuously developed, continuously delivered operating system, and this has meant that user visible feature work has taken a back seat. But the new build does have one big change: its build number has leaped from 11107 to 14251.

This isn't because the company quickly rattled off 300-odd builds in the last couple of weeks but because of continued synchronization between Windows 10 on the PC and Windows 10 Mobile. The build numbers had already been synced between the two versions, but various internal components were different. These differences are being eliminated as the codebases are unified and brought together. As part of unifying the code, the build numbers have to be brought together, too. It happens that the Mobile fork was already using higher version numbers internally than the desktop one, so the desktop operating system has had to have its build number rolled forward.

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