diff --git a/.appveyor.yml b/.appveyor.yml
index a77586470..267911d83 100644
--- a/.appveyor.yml
+++ b/.appveyor.yml
@@ -11,9 +11,15 @@ branches:
 environment:
   GOPATH: C:\gopath
   CGO_ENABLED: 1
+  GO_VERSION: 1.9
 
 before_build:
   - choco install -y mingw
+  # Install Go
+  - rd C:\Go /s /q
+  - appveyor DownloadFile https://storage.googleapis.com/golang/go%GO_VERSION%.windows-amd64.zip
+  - 7z x go%GO_VERSION%.windows-amd64.zip -oC:\ >nul
+  - go version
   # TODO: re-enable once the content unit-test have been updated to pass on windows
   #- choco install codecov
 
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b52fa0120..f3982c02a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ services:
 language: go
 
 go:
-  - 1.8.x
+  - 1.9.x
 
 go_import_path: github.com/containerd/containerd