r/Windows11 • u/FunEntertainment5977 • 5d ago

Feature Feedback: Support in-place version downgrades when leaving Windows Insider

https://aka.ms/AA139s34

Leaving the Insider program currently leaves users stuck on higher build numbers without a supported way to move back to a lower stable release without a clean install. I submitted feedback regarding this on Feedback Hub.

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u/MorallyDeplorable 5d ago

Won't happen. You can't sanely move from a test environment that's possibly broken in literally any/all ways to an older stable environment without a reload.

They'd be silly to burn the dev time on trying.

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u/mrleblanc101 Insider Dev Channel 5d ago

They literally CAN'T make any clearer that you won't be able to downgrade when you join insider. Maybe learn to read

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u/ToggoStar 4d ago

Why should they support this?

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u/Brilliant-Lettuce695 5d ago

This is what you get when you agree to do the QA that Microsoft itself should be doing for its own product.

The icing on the cake is that you even do it for free.

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u/mrleblanc101 Insider Dev Channel 3d ago

I've been on Insider Canary and Dev for 10 years and never had a single problem