Windows Insider Program is changing

The Windows Insider program has always been a hodgepodge of different branches that were all collectively trying to complete the same task, but never really had a clear identity when it came to what branch was trying to accomplish what.

Simplifying the noise

According to a a blog post from the Windows Insider Team the company is working to streamline the amount of branches currently available in the program. Now the company has chosen to go with two testing branches Experimental and Beta.

The Experimental branch is going to merge the current Dev and Canary channels which largely focus on features that may or may not come to production versions of Windows.

As for the Beta branch it will focus on actual Windows releases and features that Microsoft actually plans on releasing to the general public.

Microsoft states that this rollout will be coming in the next few weeks and users will be able to change what channel they are in. Users who are in the Dev and Canary channel will be rolled into the Experimental channel and Beta will remain in the same Beta channel.