Scott, MS released the most recent BETA build April 30th. I installed it from scratch on a virtual machine on my MAC desktop under VMware Fusion. I also upgraded the server I had built from the March build. I compared them side by side and with few exceptions found that the patches on the March build bought it up to the April 30th release date.
My point is that you can just apply patches to bring your BETA current. That said most BETAs have expiration dates and at times force a clean install. Most BETAs have what we refer to as milestones. Typically there are seven milestones in most BETAs. The first three milestones are usually focused on enhancements, the next two bug fixes, Milestone 6 (Often called BETA 6) is what we refer to as a feature freeze. Milestone 7 is assumed to be very clean and catch any last minute big issues. Then we see from three to five release-candidates. Typically one rebuilds the test system at BETA4, BETA7, RC3, and Gamma (Gold) levels. At this stage people are testing production level systems (in a testing environment or staging environment). The staging environment is when we turn end-users loose testing their production applications. Once a good release candidate is chosen it becomes Gamma (or Gold). Then it is shipped to manufacturing and distribution. It is a bit unfair to the general community to have offerer Windows 10 in MS Update, as many unsuspecting people blindly (no pun intended) put it on and paid a painful price of instability. The April 30th build level is fairly decent, but by no means 100%. Once thing that can be said for MS is that they got a lot of feedback. Some they probably were not prepared for. I recommend to install Windows 10 in a secondary partition or second hard drive if it is at all feasible and only install production version of Windows 10 on production machines. I am of course guilty of breaking that rule many times myself and often suffered the consequences of my actions. My Mac takes about three days to load and configure all software from scratch. Even though I have really good time-machine backups (including my Windows and Linux virtual machines) it is a good idea to rebuild your machine from scratch on a new OS if you want an optimum upgrade. In most cases doing an upgrade will get you 98% of the way there. What typically happens in an upgrade in place is that certain existing files may preclude newer files from being installed. An example here might be Direct Access, Branch Cache, and Routing & Remote Access Services. If you are on say MS Windows 8.1 and upgrade to 10 you do not get the new configuration files and have to manually reconfigure those services to use the new features from Windows 10. I hope this helps. > On 2015Jun 4, at 16:36, Scott via Talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm one of those trying windows 10 beta, but i can no longer upgrade to the > next beta. > I'm told I'm unable to install windows ten. > Anyone know whats up with this? > I don't want to downgrade to windows 8 really. > > Thank you > Scott > p.s So i don't clutter the list, you may reply privately if you wish. > > > > On 6/2/2015 8:58 PM, Don H via Talk wrote: >> I have reserved my copy of Windows 10. It provides a system checker for >> compatible programs and such. 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