By Laurent Giret
Publication Date: 2026-06-12 18:32:00
The simplification of Microsoft’s Windows Insider program is going well, as the company just released a record seven Insider builds across all Channels. There are two different builds on the Beta and Release Preview Channels, respectively, plus three new builds for each flavor of the new “Experimental” Channel.
If you’re wondering why Microsoft needs to release so many different preview builds, as I am, you can find links below to the release notes for each of them:
This is certainly not easy to make sense of all of this, but I’ll do my best by highlighting the most important changes. The Experimental (25H2), Beta (25H2), and Release Preview (25H2) Channels are getting the most significant updates today. As usual, the new 26H1 builds for the Experimental, Beta, and Release Preview Channels are just getting features that are already available on 25H2 builds… which makes me really wonder why you would want to test 26H1 builds in the first place. And as a…
