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Re crash data: MS actually provides crash data to 3rd party providers who set things up correctly. So if you have a desktop app you don't need to roll your own
by UnFleshedOne 5y ago
Re crash data: MS actually provides crash data to 3rd party providers who set things up correctly. So if you have a desktop app you don't need to roll your own crash collecting system if Winqual [0] is enough. Apps that roll their own (like chrome and 100s of other crashpad based apps) usually disable MS error reporting for their executables.
Also MS does ship shims for popular 3rd party apps that don't fix themselves, for better or worse...
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winqual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winqual
- zabatuvajdka 5y agoThe problem is that if you’re using a 3rd party app that IS NOT registered, it still sends the crash info to Microsoft. They should create some better apps to manage/configure that stuff. All I see as a user is when any app crashes it gets sent to Microsoft.
- UnFleshedOne 5y agoYeah, because MS sometimes fixes or shims those too, if they are too popular (or fixes bugs in their own API if those led to the crashes). Of all the questionable telemetry this one is actually useful...