I don't know about you guys but what I took out of that article is that Microsoft is secretly/stealthily tracking its users? How do they know if someone is using the start bar "11 percent less than before"? Not only that, it goes on to even say:
Instead of navigating through the nested menus within Start, or even searching for apps and documents through the live search function, users began to pin apps to the Start menu or the taskbar for even quicker access. Microsoft data found that most users (above 40 percent) didn't pin a single app to the Start menu, with steadily declining numbers pinning 1 (20 percent), 2 (15 percent), and so on.
It doesn't say anywhere in the article that it was a focus/user group and it sounds like it was generalized to refer to every Windows user so how did they collate all of those data? Shouldn't someone be raising some privacy concerns?
Disclaimer: I've not used Windows since XP. I'm a *nix user.
Windows has opt-in telemetry data. Many of their product do too. So there is some bias to those that opt-in, but I've heard that they still get tens of millions of user data.
Instead of navigating through the nested menus within Start, or even searching for apps and documents through the live search function, users began to pin apps to the Start menu or the taskbar for even quicker access. Microsoft data found that most users (above 40 percent) didn't pin a single app to the Start menu, with steadily declining numbers pinning 1 (20 percent), 2 (15 percent), and so on.
It doesn't say anywhere in the article that it was a focus/user group and it sounds like it was generalized to refer to every Windows user so how did they collate all of those data? Shouldn't someone be raising some privacy concerns?
Disclaimer: I've not used Windows since XP. I'm a *nix user.