Inferring a quality of a user experience for an unsampled computing device

A system comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• collecting, from a computing device in a set of computing devices, data representing static attributes of a component installed on the computing device, wherein:
• the set of computing devices comprises a subset of sampled computing devices from which telemetry data indicative of usage of the component is collected;
• the set of computing devices comprises a subset of unsampled computing devices from which the telemetry data indicative of the usage of the component is not collected;
• and
• the computing device is included in the subset of unsampled computing devices;
• collecting, from a sampled computing device in the subset of sampled computing devices, the telemetry data indicative of the usage of the component;
• determining a probability that the computing device is similar to other computing devices included in the subset of sampled computing devices based on the data representing the static attributes collected from the computing device and other data representing the static attributes collected from the other computing devices;
• identifying, based on the probability, a representative sampled computing device for the computing device;
• and
• inferring a quality of a user experience for the computing device based on the telemetry data collected from the representative sampled computing device that has been identified for the computing device.

A computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereupon which, when executed by a processor, cause a system to perform operations comprising:

• collecting, from a computing device in a set of computing devices, data representing static attributes of a component installed on the computing device, wherein:
• the set of computing devices comprises a subset of sampled computing devices from which telemetry data indicative of usage of the component is collected;
• the set of computing devices comprises a subset of unsampled computing devices from which the telemetry data indicative of the usage of the component is not collected;
• and
• the computing device is included in the subset of unsampled computing devices;
• collecting, from a sampled computing device in the subset of sampled computing devices, the telemetry data indicative of the usage of the component;
• determining a probability that the computing device is similar to other computing devices included in the subset of sampled computing devices based on the data representing the static attributes collected from the computing device and other data representing the static attributes collected from the other computing devices;
• identifying, based on the probability, a representative sampled computing device for the computing device;
• and
• inferring a quality of a user experience for the computing device based on the telemetry data collected from the representative sampled computing device that has been identified for the computing device.