After virtually a month hiatus, Microsoft makes bachelor another preview release for Windows 10 Creators Update Version 1703. The new Windows 10 Insider Preview build for Windows ten Creators Update milestone is build 14986, or more specifically 14986.1000.

Windows 10 Build 14986 is released to Windows Insiders on the Fast band on December seventh, 2016, and those on the Deadening band a week subsequently on December 14th, 2016. The ISO images for Windows 10 Build 14986 are not released together with the flight to Slow band, simply ISO images practise come some other week later, on Dec 21st, 2016.

Windows 10 Build 14986 is the commencement publicly available build of Windows 10 that fully embraces the Unified Update Platform (UUP), which simplifies the update process for Windows 10. UUP enables differential downloads for all devices built on the Mobile and PC Bone and then that Windows merely downloads package contains just the changes that have been fabricated since the last time y'all updated your device, rather than a total build, effectively reducing the download size. In addition, with UUP, the cloud Windows Update services will evaluate which updates are needed by a given device instead of letting device processing it. Like the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), UUP functions across Windows 10 PC, Mobile, IoT, and HoloLens.

The new features, enhancements and improvements in Windows x Build 14986 mainly involves Cortana, Game Bar, Windows Ink, Narrator and input method (IME) for Asian users, where details could be constitute on Microsoft.

New Cortana Feature in Windows 10 Build 14986

Microsoft released the ISO images for Windows 10 Build 14986 mainly for 2 purposes. Firstly, to make information technology easier for users and organizations to get started with the Insider Preview program, and secondly, equally a way to bring systems stuck on a previous update to be up to date.

Update i: Before Windows 10 Build 14986 ISO images are released, Microsoft rolls out a cumulative update KB3206309 that brings the build version from 14986.grand to 14986.1001 via Windows Update. However, the ISO images proceed to install Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14986.1000 and you're expected to get the update via Windows Update.

You can download and install Windows x Build 15007 via Windows Update, or past downloading an ISO image from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewadvanced.

The following Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14986 ISO images are bachelor:

  • Windows 10 Insider Preview
  • Windows 10 Insider Preview Enterprise is congenital to address the needs of large and midsize organizations, and comes with the direction tools that It administrators need.
  • Windows 10 Insider Preview Teaching is built for students and faculty, and comes with the management tools that It administrators need.
  • Windows 10 Insider Preview Home Single Linguistic communication is built for consumers in emerging markets and can only run a single linguistic communication.
  • Windows 10 Insider Preview Home China is built for consumers in Red china and is delivered in Simplified Chinese

Both 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows ten and for multiple languages is bachelor for selection to download. Practise note that a valid Windows x license (either via digital license bachelor on a device that has been previously activated with Windows 10 or with a Windows x product key) in order to activate the Windows ten Insider Preview installed.

The build 14986 is the last build that Microsoft is going to release in 2016. New build is expected to proceed when 2017 arrives. Windows x Creators Update is scheduled to release by April 2017.

Update two: Windows 10 Build 14997