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Why do you presume that group is aging and not regularly rotating people? A dozen people sounds like a standard team size to me, which seems mostly indicative o
by yoshuaw 6y ago
Why do you presume that group is aging and not regularly rotating people? A dozen people sounds like a standard team size to me, which seems mostly indicative of the scope (not importance) of the work.
Also I believe Microsoft employs somewhere around 50.000 engineers, a good amount of whom work on and maintain low-level systems. I find it unlikely they'd have a shortage of sourcing talent for one of their core projects.
- bobajeff 6y agoI imagine maintaining the kernel is very important. As that can be (and is) a major source of vulnerabilities. Also, it largely determines what hardware Windows can run on and what features it can have/support. If the NT kernel is in maintenance mode that might be because they are planning on replacing it.