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Interesting, but I suspect that the reduction in crashes may simply be due to the fact that a majority of windows 8 installations are either on new computers or are clean installs. I will be curious to see how the "crashes/user" number trends over time.

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I'd be more worried about what's crashing - Windows 8's Explorer is at the top, which is not a good thing...

This could come with the same concern. If a lot of these Windows 8 installs are new machines or clean installs there may not be as much third-party software installed so crashes that happen are more likely to occur in Windows components.

That said, the explorer crashes do worry me.

It's very sloppy, but not unusual for Microsoft, and easily fixed.

Could some of these be caused by 3rd party in-process shell extensions? Especially ones that aren't compatible with Windows 8?

Another related factor is the difference in user demographics -- the early adopters may be more tech savvy.

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