Tech Ticker: No more Windows 10 preview builds in 2016, uBlock Origin for Edge goes live

Tech Ticker: No more Windows 10 preview builds in 2016, uBlock Origin for Edge goes live

Windows 10 Insiders can take the rest of the year off, with Microsoft deciding that no new Insider Preview builds will ship until after New Year's. And still exclusive club of Microsoft Edge extensions now has a new member, the popular uBlock Origin ad blocker.

By Ed Bott for The Ed Bott Report | December 15, 2016 -- 18:43 GMT (10:43 PST) | Topic: Windows

No more Windows 10 preview releases in 2016

Posted December 15, 2016 10:40 PST

Dona Sarkar, who runs the Windows Insider program for Microsoft, announced via Twitter that there will be no more preview builds for the rest of this year.

 

That makes build 14986 the last of 2016. That build's tagged as rs_prerelease (with "rs" standing for the codename "Redstone 2"), which seems about right for a new wave of preview builds starting in January 2017 aiming towards the expected March/April public release of the Windows 10 Creators Update.

Ublock Origin extension for Microsoft Edge arrives

Posted December 11, 2016 13:00 PST

After an extended test period, the uBlock Origin extension for Microsoft Edge has finally landed in the Windows 10 Store. It's the third ad blocker to appear in the Store, on the heels of AdBlock and Adblock Plus (which, despite the similar names, are owned separately).

You can examine the uBlock Origin source code (also available for Chromium and Firefox) at its Github repository.

For now, at least, the extension doesn't show up in searches; instead, you have to visit the web listing to get to the page in the Store.