Comment by p4bl0
2 years ago
> how big is their OS engineering team? (…) maybe 100 folks or so?
From 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
Only a small minority of those people are going to be working on the core OS under discussion here.
Ah 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…