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"Microsoft spent over $100 million a year[1] in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on IE by 1999.[2]" (wikipedia) I think the IE7 team was less tha
by ivank 18y ago
"Microsoft spent over $100 million a year[1] in the late 1990s, with over 1,000 people working on IE by 1999.[2]" (wikipedia)
I think the IE7 team was less than a dozen people. IE8 is probably a bit more.
- moe 18y agoInteresting variance. 1000 people for IE5/IE6, a few dozen for IE7 and a bit more for IE8 again? Well, a browser is undoubtly a huge project but I wonder how you coordinate a thousand developers (or heck, more than a few hundred really) to produce something useful? I just can't think of enough non-overlapping tasks in such a project that would allow more than maybe 100 people to work simultaneously.