My best guess is that they simply didn't have enough time(after all it's almost all pretty new code and building OSes is very hard) to strip out the user info.

My best guess is that they simply didn't have enough time(after all it's almost all pretty new code and building OSes is very hard) to strip out the user info. They didn't want to end up potentially violating privacy. Hell, even their sending logs feature on Windows results in accusations. For example of a brouhaha, see this http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windows-Vista-Features-and-Services-Harvest-User-Data-for-Microsoft-58752.shtml http://news.softpedia.com/news/Forget-about-the-WGA-20-Windo... Read some of the comments on here: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/07/02/139251/Vista-is-Watching-You http://yro.slashdot.org/story/07/07/02/139251/Vista-is-Watch...