Windows 7 en el camino del Vista?

Computerworld publica un pequeño artículo de Eric Lai, que extrae la conclusión de que en el nuevo Windows trabajan unas 2000 personas, en base a declaraciones de Steven Sinofsky, de Microsoft.

"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 to have about 40 developers writing code, an equal number of beta testers -- which Sinofsky separately described as "software development engineers in test" -- and about 20 program managers.

In other words, that would be 2,000 developers creating or testing Windows 7 code, overseen by 500 managers.

Microsoft's public relations firms declined to confirm or clarify those figures.

Es probable que en estos términos, Windows 7 tenga viscisitudes parecidas a las de Vista...