A few days ago there was a mess for Microsoft users who signed up for the Windows Insider Program. Windows Insider is the best way to test Microsoft’s OS innovations before they are officially released: but even if often there are little hiccups here and there, there’s usually nothing worrisome with the use of the program. It’s a bit like installing a software beta: you know already that something might not work, you know it.
Beware!, for Windows Insider’s new releases (one for desktop, one for mobile) should not have been made available to the general public. Anyone who enrolled in the “fast ring” system, which is the automatic update system to the latest release, has found itself with a highly unstable system. Even Microsoft itself had to warn that the problems may be far more numerous than usual.
Even worse, the situation seems devastating for mobile users: what has been made available is a build made for the Internet of things, and devices that install it get stuck in a restart loop that makes them unusable. If you are in this situation, you’ll need to format the device through the Windows Device Recovery Tool.
Microsoft explicitly states that the Windows Insider Program should not be installed on your work machines, or home’s primary computer, probably very few would have expected to see these threats at work.