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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.

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  1. Only 8 hours? by guttentag · · Score: 1, Troll
    Complete build of win2k time is 8hrs on 4way PIII and requires 50GB of hard drive space...
    Only 8 hours to build the complete Win2K? That's pretty impressive, considering that every piece of software Microsoft develops is "part" of Windows... or does the 8-hour figure refer only to what we consider to be Win2K?
  2. Doh... by T3kno · · Score: 1, Troll

    It's gonna take me 8 hours on a 4 way PIII to read this whole damned presentation.

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    (B) + (D) + (B) + (D) = (K) + (&)
  3. Re:What no sacrifices to the gods? by Lobsang · · Score: 1, Troll

    What do you expect? People checking in before they email their bosses? And what happens when a bozo checks in a piece of code that DOES NOT introduce a new security bug?

    C'mon man... They got a [bad] reputation to uphold! :)

  4. Pick any two. by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 1, Troll
    • Software.
    • Engineering.
    • Microsoft.
    Pick any TWO of those.