Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by robododo on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:17AM
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Calling the data gathering intrusive is a bit of a stretch. Considerable efforts are made to ensure you're anonymized and personally identifiable information is not gathered. There are people to actively work to ensure you're not "tracked" in any way.
Off-Topic: I'd be interested to see the number of people who turn off the Microsoft CEIP (terrible abbreviation), yet still use a Google id and/or accept DoubleClick cookies.
Re:Microsoft Will Soon Bring Back The Start Menu In Windows 8.1
by ygra on Thursday April 03, 2014 @11:43AM
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That's the nice thing about web applications: You can do user tracking without needing them to opt in.
As for me, I trust Microsoft enough that I always opt in. And I've seen a few times that such data is invaluable when making feature or UI decisions.
Windows 7, Office 2010, etc. "phone home" by default, sending them usage patterns. But power user usually deactivate such intrusive annoyance.
Lessons learned the hard way: Don't rely completely on automatically gathered metrics. Do not piss off the community that develops applications for your platform.