To be fair to Microsoft, the RP ring is supposed to be for patches and fixes to the current branch but the change in tack will unnerve some still sore from the shenanigans around the April 2018 Update (which Microsoft reckons went fabulously well. Slow was helpful in helping ID any show stopping bugs this time around. 1809 is going to RP today and will be critical for helping kick start servicing. We just did a small change in our approach. Things are a little different this time around, as Windows Insider MVP Jason Coombes observed, which prompted a response from one of the Windows Insider bosses, Brandon LeBlanc. It was in the RP ring that the showstopper bugs for the April 2018 Update were found. While Microsoft is loath to use the phrase “Release Candidate”, the last two Windows 10 updates have turned up in RP prior to going live. This is because the last build, 17763, had yet to make it from the Slow Ring, where code that Microsoft reckons is relatively stable goes after a flirtation with the Fast Ring, to the Release Preview (RP) ring. While many observers (us included) expected a release date for Windows 10 to be secreted among the hardware ejaculations during last night’s Surface announcement, having the thing actually smack users in the face like an octopus flung by a seal was unexpected.
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