Windows 7 Already Has 2,500 Developers and Counting...

[ComputerGuru]

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/08/19/2500-windows-7-employees-broken-up-into-25-feature-teams

[stcredzero]

2500? Microsoft has ceased being a software development company and has become an employment program for programmers.

[chaostheory]

hmm the yc title is a bit inaccurate. MS has 2500 employees for Windows 7, with 40% of that being developers (it would be really sad if most of the other %60 were just paper pushing managers). Moreover, the size of the dev team does not necessarily mean it's a quality dev team

[ComputerGuru → chaostheory]

More managers than developers, huh? That's actually scarier.

[alyx → chaostheory]

Microsoft has PM, SDE and SDET roles. As you can probably imagine, the employee concentration (of the 2500), might very well be in SDET.

[nazgulnarsil]

does anyone else think "feature teams" sounds like product death?

[niels_olson]

is it just me or does that logo make you think of smoke and mirrors?