Findings about Windows 10 Releases

OEM/System Builder licenses are always full versions. I think there will be no upgrade pricing since it's free - everybody with devices that don't qualify to upgrade would need to buy a retail version from which we still don't know pricing/availability.

 

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If you install the Windows 10 Insider Preview, will they give you a genuine Windows 10 when it's out? Or would you still be in the same boat as the Win 7/8 pirates?

 

For non-genuine users, there'll be a watermark "Your Windows is not Genuine" on lower-right corner. And a pop-up may appear to activate your Windows genuinely. You'll have to then wait for new KMS activators, if they change the KMS mechanism.

 

With a small effort in JS, following history of a Windows Builds can be received from the Registry:

Spoiler

2015.03.24 22:10:19 - 2015.03.31 15:45:14 Windows 8.1 Pro 9600
2015.03.31 16:26:15 - 2015.04.23 02:56:17 Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10049
2015.04.23 03:44:13 - 2015.04.29 06:36:13 Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10061
2015.04.29 07:25:43 - 2015.05.21 11:32:07 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10074
2015.05.21 14:21:40 - 2015.05.28 21:13:37 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10122
2015.05.28 22:04:16 - 2015.05.30 19:11:22 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10125
2015.05.30 20:16:43 - Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10130

or more detailed with durations of Installations:

Spoiler

Updated by 10049 at Tue Mar 31 14:44:13 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 9600.17668.amd64fre.winblue_r8.150127-1500
Installation continued 41 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10049 was installed at Tue Mar 31 15:25:14 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10061 at Thu Apr 23 01:55:16 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10049.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150325-1700
Installation continued 48 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10061 was installed at Thu Apr 23 02:43:12 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10074 at Wed Apr 29 05:35:12 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10061.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150410-2039
Installation continued 50 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10074 was installed at Wed Apr 29 06:24:42 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10122 at Thu May 21 1006 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10074.1.amd64fre.fbl_impressive_cxe.150425-1755
Installation continued 3 hours 50 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10122 was installed at Thu May 21 13:20:39 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10125 at Thu May 28 20:12:36 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10122.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150513-1845
Installation continued 51 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10125 was installed at Thu May 28 21:03:15 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10130 at Sat May 30 18:10:21 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10125.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150516-2126
Installation continued 1 hours 5 minutes

Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10130 was installed at Sat May 30 19:15:42 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10130.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150522-2224

As I can not include link to code, I place it here.

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//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// Project: BuildsHistory
// Version: 1.0
// FileId: f:\Delme\CleanBCD\BuildsHistory
// When: 29 May 2015, Friday, 07:14, Windows build 10125
// Who: Oleg Kulikov, aka SYSPRG somewhere in Universe
//---------------------------------------------------------------------
// What for: just for fun: this code is Stand-alone and thus use
// it's own class to work with Registry.
//---------------------------------------------------------------------

//
// Set of the project independent methods used by the project code
//
String.prototype.strip = function()
{
return this.replace( /^(\s*)/, "" ).replace( /(\s*)$/, "" );
}

if ( typeof( repeat ) == "undefined" )
{
String.prototype.repeat = function( n )
{
var tmp = "";
for ( var i = 0; i < n; i++ ) tmp += this;
return tmp;
}
}

String.prototype.left = function( n, char )
{
if ( typeof( char ) == "undefined" ) char = " ";
if ( this.length >= n ) return this.substr( 0, n );
return this + char.repeat( n - this.length );
}

String.prototype.right = function( n, char )
{
if ( typeof( char ) == "undefined" ) char = " ";
if ( this.length > n ) return this.substr( this.length - n );
return char.repeat( n - this.length ) + this;
}

Date.prototype.DateToYYYYMMDD = function()
{
var YYYY = this.getFullYear();
var MM = ( this.getMonth() + 1 ).toString().right( 2, "0" );
var DD = this.getDate().toString().right( 2, "0" );

var hh = ( this.getHours() + 1 ).toString().right( 2, "0" );
var mm = ( this.getMinutes() + 1 ).toString().right( 2, "0" );
var ss = ( this.getSeconds() + 1 ).toString().right( 2, "0" );

return YYYY + "." + MM + "." + DD + " " +
hh + ":" + mm + ":" + ss;
}
//
// end-of-methods Set
//

//
// Start of the project code. Small class myStdReg() follows
//
//---------------------------------------------------------------
// Old-style objectes creation function. Contains some methods
// used to enumerate and read data from the Windows Registry.
// All the methods used in this class are derived from the
// correspondent methods of WMI-class root\default\StdRegProv
//---------------------------------------------------------------
function myStdReg()
{
function StdRegFailed( method, objInParam, objOutParam )
{
var prefix = null;
var valuename = null;
var msg = "";

var GetMethod = ( method.indexOf( "Get" ) > - 1 );

if ( GetMethod )
{
if ( method.indexOf( "StringValue" ) > - 1 ) prefix = "s";
else prefix = "u";

valuename = objInParam.sValueName;

if ( typeof( valuename ) == "undefined" )
{
msg = "*** INTERNAL ERROR: Property sValuName" +
" is not set in input parameters for the method " + method;
WScript.Echo( msg );
WScript.Quit();
}
}

var root = objInParam.hDefKey;
var regPath = objInParam.sSubKeyName;

var msg = "StdRegProv method " + method +
" ReturnValue = " + objOutParam.ReturnValue +
" for the path " + regPath;

if ( GetMethod )
{
var value = objOutParam[ prefix + "Value" ];
msg += ", value name = " + valuename +
" IS_NULL = " + ( value == null );
}

WScript.Echo( msg );
WScript.Quit();
}

var HKCR = 0x80000000;// HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
var HKCU = 0x80000001;// HKEY_CURRENT_USER
var HKLM = 0x80000002;// HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
var HKU = 0x80000003;// HKEY_USERS
var HKCC = 0x80000005;// HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG

var objLocator = new ActiveXObject( "WbemScripting.SWbemLocator" );
var objService = objLocator.ConnectServer( ".", "root\\default" );
var objReg = objService.Get( "StdRegProv" );

var objMethod = null;
var objInParam = null;
var objOutParam = null;
var res = null;

var root = HKLM;

this.RegReadStringValue = function ( root, regPath, valueName )
{
var res = null, rc;
objMethod = objReg.Methods_.Item( "GetStringValue" );
objInParam = objMethod.InParameters.SpawnInstance_();
objInParam.hDefKey = root;
objInParam.sSubKeyName = regPath;
objInParam.sValueName = valueName;

var res = null;
objOutParam = objReg.ExecMethod_( objMethod.name, objInParam );
if( objOutParam.ReturnValue == 0 && objOutParam.sValue != null )
{
res = objOutParam.sValue;
}
else// ( method, objInParam, objOutParam )
{
rc = StdRegFailed( "GetStringValue", objInParam, objOutParam );
}
return res;
}// End-of-RegReadStringValue

this.RegReadMultiStringValue = function( root, regPath, valueName )
{
var res = null;
objMethod = objReg.Methods_.Item( "GetMultiStringValue" );
objInParam = objMethod.InParameters.SpawnInstance_();
objInParam.hDefKey = root;
objInParam.sSubKeyName = regPath;
objInParam.sValueName = valueName;

objOutParam = objReg.ExecMethod_( objMethod.name, objInParam );

if ( objOutParam.ReturnValue == 0 && objOutParam.sValue != null )
{
res = objOutParam.sValue.toArray().join( "," );
}
else
{
rc = StdRegFailed( "RegReadMultiStringValue", objInParam, objOutParam );
}
return res;
}// End-of-RegReadMultiStringValue

this.RegReadDWORDValue = function ( root, regPath, valueName )
{
var res = null;
objMethod = objReg.Methods_.Item( "GetDWORDValue" );
objInParam = objMethod.InParameters.SpawnInstance_();
objInParam.hDefKey = root;
objInParam.sSubKeyName = regPath;
objInParam.sValueName = valueName;

objOutParam = objReg.ExecMethod_( objMethod.name, objInParam );

if( objOutParam.ReturnValue == 0 && objOutParam.uValue != null )
{
res = objOutParam.uValue;
}
else
{
rc = StdRegFailed( "RegReadDWORDValue", objInParam, objOutParam );
}
return res;
}// End-of-RegReadDWORDValue

this.RegEnumSubKeys = function( root, strRegPath )
{
var res = null;
objMethod = objReg.Methods_.Item( "EnumKey" );
objInParam = objMethod.InParameters.SpawnInstance_();
objInParam.hDefKey = root;
objInParam.sSubKeyName = strRegPath;

objOutParam = objReg.ExecMethod_( objMethod.name, objInParam );

if ( objOutParam.ReturnValue == 0 )
{
res = objOutParam.sNames == null ? null : objOutParam.sNames.toArray();
}
else
{
rc = StdRegFailed( "RegEnumSubKeys", objInParam, objOutParam );
}
return res;
}// End-of-this.RegEnumSubKeys

//
// this method converts registry REG_DWORD date to
// standard JS Date object and returns it.
//
this.RegDateToDate = function( regDate )
{
var jsDate = new Date( 1000 * regDate );
return jsDate;
}
}
//
// End-of-myStdReg()-Class-code
//

//
// Function counts duration of Windows installation
// on base of two Date objects. Is called from
// main object presentation function Show for
// each Build object collected.
//
function CountDuration( WhenFinished, WhenStarted )
{
var Seconds = ( WhenFinished.getTime() / 1000 ).toFixed() -
( WhenStarted.getTime() / 1000 ).toFixed();

var Minutes = ( Seconds / 60 ).toFixed();
if ( Minutes < 60 )
{
return Minutes.toString() + " minutes";
}
var Hours = ( Minutes / 60 ).toFixed();
Minutes = Minutes % 60;
return Hours.toString() + " hours " + Minutes.toString() + " minutes";
}

//
// Objectes collection presentation function.
// Is called from the project test code only.
// Presents detailed information about each of
// the Build objects. The only one presentaion
// function which shows Installation duration.
// Example output for one of the objects is
// given below.
//
/*
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10049 was installed at Tue Mar 31 15:25:14 UTC+0300 2015
Updated by 10061 at Thu Apr 23 01:55:16 UTC+0300 2015
Setup media ID 10049.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150325-1700
Installation continued 48 minutes
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function Show( arr )
{
var bObj, msg = "\n", duration;
var maxL = "Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview".length;

for ( var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ )
{
bObj = arr[ i ];

msg += bObj.ProductName + " " + bObj.BuildNumber +
" was installed at " + bObj.Install.toString() + "\n";

if( bObj.IsNext )
{
msg += "Updated by " + arr[ i + 1 ].BuildNumber.right( 5 ) +
" at " + ( arr[ i ].Uninstalled ).toString() + "\n";
}

msg += "Setup media ID " + bObj.BuildLabEx + "\n";

if ( bObj.IsNext && i < arr.length - 1 )
{
duration = CountDuration( arr[ i + 1 ].Install, bObj.Uninstalled );
msg += "Installation continued " + duration + "\n";
}
msg += "\n";

}

WScript.Echo( msg );
return false;
}

//
// Objectes collection presentation function.
// Is called from the project test code only.
// Presents each object in one line. Example
// output is given below.
//
/*
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
2015.03.24 22:10:19 - 2015.03.31 15:45:14 Windows 8.1 Pro 9600
2015.03.31 16:26:15 - 2015.04.23 02:56:17 Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10049
2015.04.23 03:44:13 - 2015.04.29 06:36:13 Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview 10061
2015.04.29 07:25:43 - 2015.05.21 11:32:07 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10074
2015.05.21 14:21:40 - 2015.05.28 21:13:37 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10122
2015.05.28 22:04:16 - 2015.05.30 19:11:22 Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10125
2015.05.30 20:16:43 - Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 10130
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function BriefShow( arr )
{
var bObj, msg = "";
var maxL = "Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview".length;
var timestampL = "2015.05.28 21:13:37".length;
WScript.Echo( "\n" );

for ( var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ )
{
bObj = arr[ i ];
msg += bObj.ShortInstall + " - ";
msg += ( bObj.IsNext ? bObj.ShortUninstalled :
" ".left( timestampL ) ) + " ";
msg += bObj.ProductName.left( maxL ) + " ";
msg += bObj.BuildNumber.right( 5 ) + "\n";
}

WScript.Echo( msg + "\n" );
return false;
}

//
// Objectes collection presentation function.
// Debug-time presentation. Each property of
// each of the objects is printed in one line.
// Example output for one of the objects is
// given below.
//
/*
------------------------------------------------------------
Uninstalled Thu Apr 23 01:55:16 UTC+0300 2015
PreviousBuild 9600
BuildLabEx 10049.0.amd64fre.fbl_impressive.150325-1700
BuildNumber 10049
Install Tue Mar 31 15:25:14 UTC+0300 2015
ProductName Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview
ShortInstall 2015.03.31 16:26:15
ShortUninstalled 2015.04.23 02:56:17
IsNext true
-------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function DebugShow( arr )
{
var bObj, msg = "\n";
var maxPL = "ShortUninstalled".length;

for ( var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++ )
{
bObj = arr[ i ];
for ( var p in bObj )
{
msg += p.left( maxPL ) + " " + bObj[ p ] + "\n";
}
msg += "-------------------\n";
}

WScript.Echo( msg );
WScript.Echo( "--------All done-------" )
return false;
}

function SetShortDates( bObj, ind )
{
if ( typeof( bObj.Install ) == "object" )
{
//bObj.ShortInstall = DateToYYYYMMDD( bObj.Install );
bObj.ShortInstall = bObj.Install.DateToYYYYMMDD();
}
else bObj.ShortInstall = " ";

if ( typeof( bObj.Uninstalled ) == "object" )
{
bObj.ShortUninstalled = bObj.Uninstalled.DateToYYYYMMDD();
}
else bObj.ShortUninstalled = " ";

return bObj;
}

//
// Input:
// regObj - myStdReg class object created by the caller
// path - Registry path which contains necessary values
// bObj - Build object created by the caller
// Function gets necessary data from the Registry using
// methods of the class myStdReg and set bObj properties.
// Updated bObj is returned to the caller.
// Function is called some times from the main function
// BuildsHistory() and returns updated object.
//
function SetBuildObjectProperties( regObj, path, bObj, pbObj )
{
var HKLM = 0x80000002;// HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
var res, sDate;

bObj.PreviousBuild = " "; // on a case that unknown

if ( typeof( pbObj ) != "undefined" )
{
bObj.PreviousBuild = pbObj.BuildNumber;
}

res = regObj.RegReadStringValue( HKLM, path, "BuildLabEx" );
bObj.BuildLabEx = res;
bObj.BuildNumber = res.split( "." )[ 0 ];

res = regObj.RegReadDWORDValue( HKLM, path, "InstallDate" );
bObj.Install = regObj.RegDateToDate( res ); // save Date object

bObj.ProductName = regObj.RegReadStringValue( HKLM, path, "ProductName" );

return bObj;
}

/*
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Main project function: is called by the project test code to create Builds objects
array.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This function will create an object for each of the Builds detected in the Registry.
Objects will be sorted by the build numbers. Each object has some primary properties
and some secondary. Primary properties are those which values were set on base of the
data read from the Registry. Secondary propierties are those which were derived from
the primary properties.

There are only 4 primary properties:

ProductName - Windows product name
Install - product installation date
Uninstalled - date of the product update to the next build
BuildLabEx - Setup media identification

BuildNumber - is derived from BuildLabEx
PreviousBuild - is derived from BuildLabEx
ShortInstall - YYYYMMDD presentaion of Install date
ShortUninstalled - YYYYMMDD presentaion of Install date
IsNext - true if Build objec is not last in chainn
and false for the current product.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
function BuildsHistory()
{
var myRegObj = new myStdReg();// create service object to work with Registry

var HKLM = 0x80000002;// HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

var bObj = {}, pbObj = {}, currObj = {}, prevObj = {}, builds = [], rc, res;

//
// Step 1, we will set some of the current Build object properties. Besides we will
// set some properties of the previous build object.
// HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup, value with the name CloneTag contains date of uninstallation
// of the previous build and build number of the previous build. Though it seems
// that time stamp of the previous build uninstallation is also timestamp for the
// current build installation, we will use another source to get precise value
// of this date together with some more properties of the current build object.
//

var regPath1 = "SYSTEM\\Setup";
var regPath2 = "SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows NT\\CurrentVersion";

res = myRegObj.RegReadStringValue( HKLM, regPath1, "UninstallSourceVersion" );

pbObj.BuildNumber = res;

res = myRegObj.RegReadMultiStringValue( HKLM, regPath1, "CloneTag" );
res = new Date( res );

pbObj.Uninstalled = res;

bObj = SetBuildObjectProperties( myRegObj, regPath2, bObj, pbObj );

prevObj = pbObj; //
currObj = bObj; // do not place current into array: it should be the last one

//
// Step 2, we will enumerate all builds present in HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup.
// They are pesented by subkeys with a names like
// "Source OS (Updated on 3/31/2015 14:44:13)". Thus we will enumerate
// subkeys of HKLM\SYSTEM\Setup, then filer those subkeys which
// corresponds to the builds and create objects for them.
//

var key = regPath1, path, p, needKey = "Source OS (Updated on ";
var needKeyL = needKey.length, tmp1, tmp2, rc;

res = myRegObj.RegEnumSubKeys( HKLM, regPath1 );

for ( var i = 0; i < res.length; i++ ) // In this loop we filter out
{ // unnecessary subkeys.
p = res[ i ].indexOf( needKey ); // Try to detect if we need subkey
if ( p > - 1 ) // Yes, subkey presents Build and
{ // we will create Build object
bObj = new Object; // and set object properties
pbObj = builds[ builds.length - 1 ]; // get previous Build object

p += needKeyL;

// get date field from subkey and save it in tmp1
tmp1 = res[ i ].substr( p, res[ i ].indexOf( ")", p ) - 1 );
tmp1 = tmp1.substr( 0, tmp1.length - 1 ).strip();
bObj.Uninstalled = new Date( tmp1 );

path = key + "\\" + res[ i ]; // prepare path for reading values
bObj = SetBuildObjectProperties( myRegObj, path, bObj, pbObj );

builds[ builds.length ] = bObj;
}
}
// add Build object correspondent to
builds[ builds.length ] = currObj; // the current Windows build as a last
// object in the chain.

for ( var i = 0; i < builds.length; i++ ) // In this loop we set secondary
{ // properties other then BuildNumber
builds[ i ] = SetShortDates( builds[ i ], i );
builds[ i ].PreviousBuild = ( i ) ? builds[ i - 1 ].BuildNumber : " ";
builds[ i ].IsNext = ( i < ( builds.length - 1 ) );
}
// all Builds presentaion objects were
return builds; // created. Return to the caller an array
} // of the objects created.

//--------------------------- Project test code -----------------------
var rc;
var arr = BuildsHistory(); // create an array of Builds objects
rc = BriefShow( arr ); // get brief presentation
rc = Show( arr ); // get detailed presentation
rc = DebugShow( arr ); // get debug, full presentation
WScript.Quit();

//--End-of-File-BuildsHistory------------------------------------------

 

WMP and Video app cannot play 8K resolution in Windows 10.

 

You mean youtube videos ?

 

No, I mean 8K Video file I have on my computer.

 

Do you have screen 8K resolution ?

 

No! But, it plays with a 5kplayer on a 4k screen.

 

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Yes, unlike WMP and Video app that close instantly the 5kplayer plays it slowly. I intend to get a 8k resolution screen in the future.

 

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Beside that, Microsoft promises to provide 8k-compatible OS in Windows 10.

 

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Wow, Microsoft has added advertisements to latest version of Weather app (version 4.3.115.0). No kidding.

There's nice updates for Calculator and much more, I'll see if there are more advertisements.

I feel regret now helping MS as an Insider.

EDIT: You need to update your apps to latest with Store (Beta) which is wickedly slow for some reason.

Advertisements all throughout News app. Ads in Sports app now as well. Ads in Money app.

Video app is now Movies & TV app.

 

thats how they will remake the money from giving away free upgrades ads not a suprise relly