Microsoft may have 2,000 developers working on Windows 7

25 'feature teams' to work on different facets of the replacement to Vista OS

(Computerworld) Microsoft Corp.'s head of engineering for the Windows 7 operating system said there are 25 "feature teams" of about 100 employees each working on the upcoming replacement to Windows Vista.

Windows 7 teams work on anything from external features, such as user interfaces, to under-the-hood areas such as networking, according to Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows and Windows Live engineering, in a Monday posting at the new "Engineering Windows 7" blog.

"We create feature teams with n developers, n testers, and 1/2n program managers," Sinofsky wrote in a four-page blog that introduced his views on managing large-scale software development. "On average a feature team is about 40 developers across the Windows 7 project."

Based on that arrangement, each feature team would appear.........


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You mean Too many cooks spoils the broth?

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Albert wrote:

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Albert wrote:

no I think he means ..........too many crooks spoil microsoft

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