Discovery and mining of performance information of a device for anticipatorily sending updates to the device

A computer-readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a computing device to perform operations, comprising:

• storing, by the computing device, contextual information indicating one or more portions of an operating environment that is associated with at least a portion of the operations, user preference information indicating at least one user preference or user activity information indicating at least one present, past or inferred future user activity;
• sending the contextual information, the user preference information or the user activity information and performance information that is associated with at least one operation of the operations being performed by the computing device to a service component;
• and
• receiving, based on the contextual information, the user preference information or the user activity information and the performance information, configuration information from the service component for configuring the computing device.

A system, comprising:

• an interface component stored in a computable readable storage medium configured to:
• receive, from a client, contextual information indicating an operating environment of the client, user preference information indicating a user preference or user activity information indicating a present, past or inferred future user activity, and performance information that is associated with one or more operations being performed by the client based on the operating environment, and
• send, based on correlation information, update information to the client;
• and
• a service component configured to infer a relationship between the contextual information, the user preference information or the user activity information, and the performance information to obtain the correlation information.

A method, comprising:

• receiving, by a service component of a first computing device, contextual information from clients indicating respective operating environments of the clients and storing the contextual information in a data store, user preference information indicating a user preference or user activity information indicating a present, past or inferred future user activity;
• receiving performance information that is associated with respective operations being performed by the clients in the respective operating environments and storing the performance information in the data store;
• in response to correlating the contextual information, the user preference information or the user activity information with the performance information utilizing the data store, inferring a recommended configuration of a second computing device;
• and
• communicating the recommended configuration to the second computing device.