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Does anybody know how MS does Windows development these days? Just curious…

I hope someone at Microsoft does, though their attention seems to be elsewhere.

I'm guessing around 800: 3 devs for the OS core, the rest for the adware and spyware.

(/s)

That's good to know, honestly surprised to read that NT had that many. I'd figured early versions wouldn't require that many people. Now knowing the Fuchsia numbers, I don't know if that's a signal to how productive the team is or if they dwindling resources.

And also for comparison, Windows NT 3.1 had to run and interact with a much broader zoo of devices.