Rumor: presently the new builds are labelled "Consumer Preview", so there probably won't be any updates to build 9879 until public release of Consumer Preview. AFAIK, there were at least 4 updates for Partner builds, so there expects 2~3 further updates for Partner builds.
I wouldn't have to ask Gabe any more about the DirectX 12 as I can lay my hands on it through the help of MDL members. I think I am be able to find out for my self after installation if DirectX 12 and Kernel version 10 are there.
The release of Windows 10 is already postponed to Fall (3. Quarter) 2015 and may would even be more late! MS will avoid to fast release on cost of instability of the new OS, they simply need to stop the way down as it is in the moment with Windows 8.x!
There never was any "postpone", the so-called 2015 April release was planned for WinThreshold, which was supposed to be win8.2.
Plan's are subject of change! Is as easy as that! Like the change from Windows 9 to Windows 10, something which is official for some time now! Or would you deny that too?
@pisthai and @FaiKee: Let me clarify things reading the German article. The next release of an M$ OS has been postponed, but not the release of w10. The article makes one to conclude that it must be w10 that had been postponed. But due to the chronology of things it could not be w10. The article is unclear / bad headline journalism and leaves room for interpretations. No need for a rant. Btw: @pisthai 'BILD' is no good journalism, it is worst yellow press...there are far more reliable German news...
You could be right and you could be wrong about the releases! Who really knows? It's MS, for sure!! Time will teach and IK really wouldn't wonder if the report of 'Bild' is just right! Regarding Journalistic, fact is that there isn't real objective journalism at all. The Reporters and Journalist's are directed by their Employer how, what and in which borders they could report. Simply said, everything what's reported are censored upfront, at least at the publisher if not even from some 'Organization's'! Even Newsletters like Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Die Welt and many others of the German News are strictly censored. That although start's by Agencies like Reuters, DPA and so on. How many years The Readers of the ADAC News had blessed that reports etc. which finally was shown there was nothing else than just Scam, Corruption and, and, and?! A few years ago, and UK Journalist, who's based in Thailand and writes for several News include some German News, had shown me e-mails from reputated Newsletters in which he was clearly ordered what he could report! And that was not for some 'Yellow' Press! Often that fact is that those 'Yellow Press' reports the real truth while the others didn't! But OK, everybody has his own mind what the good and what's the bad and I wouldn't be a judge of that!
slightly off topic but goes along with your statement: read the book "Gekaufte Journalisten" written by Dr. Udo Ulfkotte. It is a bestseller and afaik it is translated to many languages by now. There you find out how journalism is corrupted all over the world ...