I have turned it off in everything MS, and 99.9% of all other applications. I've also have steadily dropped off of doing surveys.

From what I can tell M$ has not listened to anyone in any fashion. The office suite went to the ribbon in 2007, continued it in 2010, and I believe it is in 2012. The ribbon has not worked for me and I can't foresee a way that it ever will.

Then at the OS level, I glanced at Win 8 but will not use it. I have Win7 as my primary OS now, but I hack it back to as close to XP as I can. AeroGlass just frustrated me for a long time.

Probably the reason that Halo 4 has succeeded is because their head of the department told Steve Ballmer when it came to game design and backed it up with facts.