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> how big is their OS engineering team? (…) maybe 100 folks or so? From https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/ https://devbl
by p4bl0 3y ago
> how big is their OS engineering team? (…) maybe 100 folks or so?
From https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-o... :
> the Windows team is about 4,000 engineers and the engineering system produces 1,760 daily “lab builds” across 440 branches in addition to thousands of pull request validation builds
- avar 3y agoOnly a small minority of those people are going to be working on the core OS under discussion here.
- p4bl0 3y agoAh right, the gp comment was specifically about the kernel, not the whole OS, sorry. Regarding the kernel, I think it's not really possible for Microsoft to port Windows to the Linux kernel without breaking its backward-compatibility policy. Or maybe it would need something like WSL but reversed? But anyway I'm not sure it would make much sense. That said, I didn't even touch a Windows system for maybe more than 10 years now…