I thought you might enjoy hearing about what the Windows SDK's download and user-submitted data are looking like. This data is as of May 7th, 2007.
Successful downloads of the Windows Vista Client RTM:
The trend towards a higher percentage of web downloads continues. In February 60% of all users had used the ISO; those numbers seem to have flipped.
SQM data:
We use SQM (aka CEIP) information to track which custom install options users choose. This information is collected anonymously and absolutely nothing that shows or implies any user information is collected.
A total of 7286 users have sent us SQM data. Of those, 4874 had successful downloads and 2502 had unsuccessful downloads. The users with successful downloads who sent SQM data represent .798% of all successful users. In other words, 99.2% of all users with successful downloads did not send data.
Of those users that did send data, a good percentage choose other than the standard install options. The table below represents the percentage of those 4784 users who deselected the various install options.
Option
% deselect
Win32 docs
17.2
.NET Framework docs
13.4
.NET Samples in Docs
15.3
.NET Samples in Zips
14.6
Win32 samples
Vista Headers and Libs (parent node)
16.9
Headers
16.5
x86 Libs
21.6
x64 Libs
77.9
VC++ Compilers (parent node)
20.1
x86 Compilers
24.9
x64 Compilers
78.8
FxCop
22.4
WinDbg
20.9
.NET Framework tools
12.1
Win32 tools
15.6
.NET Compact Framework
91.7
What's your take on this information?