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Software Engineering at Microsoft

Posted by michael on from the how-the-big-boys-work dept.

an_mo writes "A link to a google cached document is floating around some mailing lists containing some info about microsoft software engineering. In particular the document contains juicy bits about the development of a large project like NT/2K. Some examples: Team size went from 200 (NT3.1) to 1400 (Win2k). Complete build of win2k time is 8hrs on 4way PIII and requires 50GB of hard drive space. Written/email permission required for checkins by the build team." The HTML version on Usenix's site is much nicer than Google's auto-translated version.

3 of 461 comments (clear)

  1. Did they use a big enough font? by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Geez, I run at 1600 by 1200 and I still had to scroll every 10 lines or so. I got people yelling at me down on the street because I read slow.

  2. 8 hours? by hatrisc · · Score: 4, Funny

    it may have taken 8 hours, because they had to reboot twice.

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  3. 8 hours? Forgot something? by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
    Complete build of win2k time is 8hrs on 4way PIII and requires 50GB of hard drive space.

    Some goofy Microsoft Intern forgot to put -j 4 along with compliation.

    Either that, or they compiled it on Win9x (which has NO multiprocessor support).

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