Today, Microsoft finally released a new build of Windows 10 Mobile to Windows Insiders, build 10512. For a list of what’s new, click here. For known issues, read on.
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Windows 10 Mobile Build 10512 Now Available!
It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for! There is finally a new Windows 10 Mobile build!
We saw major improvements in Windows 10 Mobile Build 10149 and 10166; however, this is Windows 10 Mobile Build 10512. This puts Windows 10 Mobile on par with Windows 10 for desktops, which is currently at build 10240.
When I say it puts it on par, I mean that some things are fundamentally missing in previous Windows 10 Mobile builds. For example, I submitted the For the Love of Tech universal app to the Windows 10 Store, which should run on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, and Windows 10 on Xbox One; however, it requires Windows 10 Mobile build 10240 or better, so until now, you would get the Windows Phone 8.1 version of the app.
So what’s new in Windows 10 Mobile build 10512? Have a look.
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Windows 10 Mobile Build 105xx Not Coming Today
We have all been anxiously awaiting the next Windows 10 Mobile build. After all, the best app in the universe can only run on desktop Windows 10 because it’s waiting for build 10240 or better.
Well, Saint Gabe tweeted today that there will be a new build soon, but not today. Possibly more interesting is that the new build will be 105xx, which is odd because previously we were expecting build 10240.
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Microsoft Publicly Releases Windows 10 IoT Core
After Build this year, Microsoft had releases the Windows 10 IoT Core Preview. Well, today is the day that the full and public release is available, and it’s available at everyone’s favorite price: free.
Windows 10 IoT Core is created for smaller devices that may or may not have a display. You can run it on the Raspberry Pi 2 or the MinnowBoard Max.
Since Windows 10 IoT Core is designed for devices that might not have displays, there is no interface. It’s just the Windows 10 Core. You would write a Windows 10 Universal app to create your own interface.
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Microsoft is Open Sourcing Windows Bridge for iOS
While the Windows 10 launch has come and gone, there is still much to be desired. For one thing, we’re still waiting for the various bridges that Microsoft announced, such as the Windows Bridge for iOS, also known as Project Islandwood.
While Project Islandwood won’t be officially available until the Fall, Microsoft is throwing the code up on Github.
In a related article, Microsoft made it clear that this is not about porting iOS apps. They are not running in an emulator. Visual Studio 2015 will compile Objective-C code into native universal apps.
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For the Love of Tech Windows 10 Universal App is Live!
This is something that I’m very excited about. I’ve been working on this for a long time, and the official For the Love of Tech Windows 10 universal app is now live in the Store, and it’s absolutely FREE!
If you’re still on Windows 8.1 or Windows Phone 8.1, you can still grab version 2.0. If you’re on Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview, you’re still going to get version 2.0 of the For the Love of Tech app. The reason is because the mobile side of the Universal Windows App requires Windows 10 Mobile build 10240 or better, which hasn’t been publicly released. You can download version 2.0 right now, and as soon as Microsoft pushed out a new Windows 10 Mobile build, you’ll be updated
The Windows 10 DVD Player App is Now Available
You might have heard that Windows 10 would not support Media Center. It’s kind of a big deal. All three people that use it are really upset.
Microsoft did promise a replacement, a DVD Player app. The DVD Player app is free from the Store, assuming that you upgraded to Windows 10 from a PC that had a version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 that had Media Center.
If you upgraded from any other version of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, the DVD Player app is $14.99. You can download it right here.
Microsoft vs Apple part 20: Windows 10 Mobile vs iOS 9
I’m not a fan of OS comparisons. I’m even less of a fan of doing the comparisons myself. I despise the idea of claiming that a single operating system is better than another, since every operating system offers some kind of advantage over all other operating systems.
I do have to say that this was a fun video to make. I put Cortana next to Siri. We have two Photos apps, one of which pulls photos from OneDrive and one of which pulls photos from iCloud.
The main point of the video was to see if Windows 10 Mobile/Windows Phone has yet caught up with iOS. After all, while Windows Phone has always been great in concept, it has always been lacking some very basic and key features, some of which I discuss here.
It’s a long video, and I apologize for that. I go pretty in-depth on certain things. It’s not entirely impossible that I’ll do a comparison again except with a shorter version. If you want it to happen, let me know in the comments. Another thing I’m going to do next is Windows 10 for PCs (in tablet mode) vs iOS 9.
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Windows 10 Review: Fixing a Hole
When Windows 10 launched on July 29, 2015, the Internet was littered with Windows 10 reviews. I didn’t write one, nor did I read any. After all, we’ve been writing about Windows 10 for ten months. Build after build after build, we all made a big deal about each and every one.
I use my Surface Pro as my Windows 10 testing machine and my Surface Pro 3 as my main machine. When a new Insider Preview build came out, I’d install it on my Surface Pro, make a walk through video, shut off the Surface Pro, and put it away.
The main reason that I never chose to use Windows 10 as a daily driver is because Microsoft stripped out the OneDrive functionality that they added in Windows 8.1, a functionality that I have come to rely on. We’ll get to that later.
When July 29 rolled around, I decided to take the plunge on my Surface Pro 3 and I’ve been using it ever since…
Windows 10 Mobile Build 10240 Not Coming to Insiders
By now, you’ve probably heard about Windows 10 Mobile build 10240. If you install Visual Studio 2015, it installs an emulator for the build. If you try to run a Windows 10 universal app on a Windows Phone running the Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview, it tells you that you need build 10240.
You probably thought that Windows 10 Mobile build 10240 is coming soon.
It’s not.
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