The largest Git repo on the planet

All this manpower for producing such pointless garbage.

They have been using it since even much earlier than the date of that article. This seems to pertain in particular to the windows team but ms's internal github-equivalent was supporting git for even longer and nobody was retarded enough to use source depots. Basically every microsoft software is unbelievably shit with some being good in theory or principle but unusably buggy in practice (typically things that will never ever be shown to end users), so employees do everything they can to avoid ms products. That's the main reason they like nadela, before him it was mandatory to use everything ms only. Now you can work from a macbook if you so want.

Terry Davis tried to warn us. Everything is too bloated. Devs need to ask themselves "what can we remove" not "what can we add"

windows 10 needs at least a 6 core 3.4ghz to run smoothly. even on my system you can sense the bloat slowing it down. i have 16gb of ram and windows 10 needs 5 gigs of it just to idle.

It ran OK on my 1090t, but I had my 1090t OC'd to 3.8Ghz, and 8GB of RAM. Shit idled at like 2GB of usage, nothing open.

On my 2700x and 16GB of RAM, it's significantly faster, but still not as snappy as Linux.

> Will this improve the quality of Windows 10?
> 2017/05/24
No.

No it wont

i was talking about the users themselves

Terry Davis could make wonders with just 100 thousand lines of code.

It's not like Linux kernel is any worse.

isn't windows 10 build on the top of windows NT, win 7, win 8, etc?

no wonder its so huge

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why put it all in one repo though? why not have different repos for the different components?

it's one giant repo with different components inside it

4000 people? Imagine working for a company where you're not irreplaceable and can take a day off or two without all hell breaking loose

I should try to get hired by a big company

It's built on top of previous versions in the same manner that any software is built "on top of" previous versions. They're not going to throw all that development into the trash and start over for each version of Windows.

One of Windows' main selling point though is the incredible backwards compatibility that it has. You can run most binaries written for Windows XP just fine on Windows 10, and businesses LOVE this. That's why Windows RT was a huge flop - it didn't support any existing software. If MS was to get rid of Windows' backwards compatibility, there would be no reason for businesses to upgrade or even stick in the MS ecosystem.

That's 4000 engineers, just for the Windows team.
Even in a small business you should be able to take time off without worrying things will fall apart. If you can't, that's a management failure.

>3.5M files
>300GB
>4,000 engineers
How can 4,000 fucking people make such little progress and build something so garbage? With 4,000 people, you could build a new operating system from scratch in a year.

We are a 3-person company.
Two bosses, owning 50% each, who are not on speaking terms.
And me.

It's really bad but I'm not ready to leave and start looking for work just yet.

Have you seen the video of the guy who installs Doom on Windows 3.1 and then he upgrades all the way to Windows 7 one by one and all of his programs, files and even Doom still work throughout the process?

Keeping everything from 30 years ago still working today is probably like 90% of Microsoft's work.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442941

>Oracle Database 12.2.
>It is close to 25 million lines of C code.

What the fuck that's nightmare mode.
Why don't you want to leave? Do you enjoy suffering?

this sounds like it's just a matter of time when someone gets a copy of win10 source code and make it available by torrent

I'm Greek. I probably won't find a job that fast.

if that's true then you should start looking sooner rather than later.

It would be unwanted source code.
ReactOS already had a 10 year hiatus after Windows 2000 was leaked.

>It would be unwanted source code.
wrong

>do all the work
>own 0% of the company
That's a yikes from me

The value they bring to the company is the capital that they have and you don't.
Regardless of the ideas and skill you have, you'll starve before you come up with anything of value.
The product that they receive with no strings attached, in exchange for offering you their capital is the deal you strike when you sign the contract.

Of course, if you really did have all of the ideas and connections and could shill like no other, then you'd be getting the capital from investors by yourself.
That's the real yikes.

How come my Windows installation shits itself and dies after one incremental update then?

It's often because of nonstandard drivers and such.
When pajeet-grammers try to detect the current version of Windows they usually do some `uname -a` bullshit and stringsearch for "Windows 9" or a specific NT kernel version.
Obviously when you increment to Windows 7, 8, 10... the version check fails and the driver fucks up.

The solution Microsoft put out, starting on Windows 7 was to force manufacturers to adhere to standard universal drivers written by Microsoft themselves.
Because of this, the upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10 should have been completely seamless.

>Have you seen the video of the guy who installs Doom on Windows 3.1 and then he upgrades all the way to Windows 7 one by one and all of his programs, files and even Doom still work throughout the process?
sauce

Nearly all of that is wrong

>Lets find a way to efficiently manage all this bloated code instead of debloating it

yike'd

he was clearly calling linux users fat

Whats so wrong about it?

We are Jow Forums and feminine

Capitalism is a big yikes, when do we get em?