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How many programmers did Microsoft need for 1 million OS installs vs 1 billion? The reason software can be such a money maker is that the marginal unit costs ar
by hotpotamus 4y ago
How many programmers did Microsoft need for 1 million OS installs vs 1 billion? The reason software can be such a money maker is that the marginal unit costs are close to zero.
- alehlopeh 4y agoWhy does Microsoft get to be evaluated in 1994? How many people are working on their OS right now?
- hotpotamus 4y agoI don't know the answer to either of those questions. But I don't think the economics of desktop OS distribution have changed all that much in the last 30 years. I'd imagine the marginal unit costs have gone from very cheap to basically nothing now that physical media is a rarity. If modern OSes take more development effort (which seems likely), I don't think that changes the economics.
- Phrenzy 4y agoI for one am on the QA team. No, I do not work at Microsoft or any of its partners. I just use their operating systems.