PDC09 – Keynote Day 2 – Part 1
Steve is 
on stage talking about the things learned from Windows 7, the rhythm that was going between Microsoft and the community, involving feedback they got from the beta and RC versions.
The Telemetry included :
- Send feedback button
- Device Diagnostics
- SQM- Software Quality Monitor (what is the sequence of events performed by users, and what are the most used way to get from one place to another within the operating system
- Watson – Windows error reporting (remember that tool? :-)) sending dumps and make the whole process of fixing
errors a lot errors by Microsoft a lot easier.
The numbers are enormous, like 1,729,890 Send Feedback reports, and ~10 million Aggregate Windows Error Reports, and ~900 Million SQM Sessions. ~ 514 Million Start Menu clicking.
They are showing a lot of different hardware manufacturers and many kinds of different hardware from net books to more advanced ones.
Also, they just now announced that they are going to give away free laptops multi touch to delegates of the conference.