The Insider Program is a One-Way, Dead-End Street (Premium)
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The Windows Insider Program sounded like such a great idea when it was first announced, but it’s devolved into something terrible. Case in point: now that the Dev and Beta channels don’t correspond to specific Windows versions, it’s not possible to automatically unenroll your PCs as you could before.
And this isn’t a theoretical issue: in the past, Microsoft allowed Insiders to configure an enrolled PC to leave the program and get back on the stable channel once the version of Windows they were testing was released publicly. That was a good system. When it worked.
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