If you look around the forum you will see that @Enthousiast and the others who do this stuff post official verifiable checksums as published by MS. As mentioned in my preceding post this assures peace of mind that it is the genuine thing. As a quick example see this post.
you are right I have a little time to deal and I have lost some things and I do not download what I find on my way I may not be a programmer but I deal with computers andwindows 95 since 1999 I know about viruses more than anything else I have made countless formats I have lost things I have spent nights and nights to rebuild my operating system I no longer put what I find on my computer for years I have been careful to find only the best and this with great care and never in the computer happy there are virtual machines, as soon as I see the slightest DELETE immediately !!!!!!!
if you run the inside prev version, after the release of windows 11 shows up in october, would you be able to update directly to the new relesae version or need to reformate?
If you run 22000.xxx you will most likely still receive updates when win 11 goes GA, the next major new upgrade could become a problem but leave it to MDL to fix that too, when needed
thank you for your answer. if i push this on a production ( testing LAB ) i can still update later to the RC? i will try to find the link of 22000.xx build and try to update win10. hopefully wont los anything.
Dunno what RC means in this context, server 2022 ltsc is out in public. 22000.xxx builds are very hard to find but try the OP, there should be some download options
22449.1000 is from Dev_Channel. IF a new Version of Windows comes from what is Developed on Dev_Channel it won't happen till Oct. 2022. There will be only 1 Version of Windows a year now.
From using windows for many many years it feels like its never really comes out of beta lol.. is it every really "done" ? little code here and a little code there etc....
Obviously hardware changes over time and consumer trends change and so they need to try to adjust and make new versions, but given fixed hardware I would say that they sometimes do a pretty good job with certain versions. Sometimes they do a bad job or have priorities that don't align with what the customers care about. When I think of beta software, I think of buggy and glitchy software that isn't ready for release. None of the pre-win10 operating systems that they've released could be classified in this category. I still haven't seen any compelling evidence of MS releasing any Win10 builds or even the Win8.1 w/update that had the problem that needed a cumulative update, from what I've seen those issues were still minor. They weren't issues like we're seeing right now with this beta OS where people are needing to delete registry keys to get their taskbar to work. Granted, this is still a beta OS and it isn't final yet, but if we're at about a month until their official release and we're still running into major issues. I've never seen anything like this. I'm still not going to judge it until I see the final release, but I'm very skeptical.
^THIS. I noticed how stress free I am about what Microsoft might do, and realised that it was because I know MDL has my back.