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0 pointsninjagoo1mo ago0 comments

> What sort of metric would I have registered as?

Monthly average user. Uptime for Win 11. Uptime not counting screensaver. Uptime for non-enterprise consumer. If you were a Win 11 enterprise user, then Uptime for enterprise users. Unique hardware indicators - number of distinct PCs in Win 11 ecosystem, separated from new activations. And I'm sure a few others that I haven't thought of.

Declining stats on these measures indicate a problem somewhere in the Win 11 ecosystem. Combine with competitor indicators like sales, and other Win ecosystem OSes.

A single person switching probably doesn't do much to move the indicators. But as a collective?

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mancerayder1mo ago· 1 in thread

Yes for sure. My point is they won't know if I moved to Mac, Linux or just a Chromebook, or just decided to stop using a desktop PC.

estimator72921mo ago

They'll notice if no Windows machines phone home from your IP address anymore. It doesn't matter so much what you switched to, more that you're no longer giving Microsoft those sweet, sweet KPIs

DarkUranium1mo ago

Considering Win11 being, well, Win11, I wouldn't be surprised if they were sending partition tables of hard drives to detect other OSes.

They won't be able to detect which Linux distro it is that way, but they'd definitely know it's ext4 or whatnot, which heavily implies Linux.

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