"As we pass the one month anniversary of the general availability of Windows 8, we are pleased to announce that to-date Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses. Tami Reller shared this news with industry and financial analysts, investors and media today at the Credit Suisse 2012 Annual Technology Conference. Windows 8 is outpacing Windows 7 in terms of upgrades." Not bad, but there are the usual asterisks, as Ars notes.
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Thom_Holwerda,
"This is called the Customer Experience Improvement Program or something, and is opt-in, and has been for almost a decade. It's very well-documented."
Wow really?
I'd like to know who's included in this because I just finished installing two win7 machines and I did not get any opportunity to opt in or opt out of this. As far as I'm aware these machines are not reporting back to MS.
The pages I found explain vaguely what CEIP is, but not what products it's included for, or when one is prompted to opt in.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/ceip/en-us/privacypolicy.mspx
What I found for opt out instructions are application specific. Am I right to assume CEIP is only installed with specific applications? Maybe that's why I hadn't seen it before. I don't use outlook, which apparently has CEIP.
http://www.groovypost.com/howto/disable-microsoft-office-customer-e...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693975.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd297945.aspx
Edit:
There's a bit more information here, it looks it's a part of window 7 too, but I haven't seen the screen that's pictured there. On my copy it's disabled. I'm curious when users are supposed to be asked to opt in, is it possible OEMs just shipped it that way?
http://www.verboon.info/index.php/2011/04/the-microsoft-customer-ex...
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"Reller offered some other numbers to suggest that consumers were getting along with Windows 8 better than some expected: 90 percent of users manage to use the charms on their first day, 50 percent visit the Windows Store on the first day, and 85 percent launch the desktop on the first day."
Where does this information come from? Does microsoft keep tabs on all users through some kind of phone home mechanism? Or is this an estimate based on a study group?
I wonder what other information is being collected?