Windows Vista - Facts from Windows Vista magazine

Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:14 PM by hwaldron
Facts related to the new Windows Vista operating system: 

4000 engineers estimated to have worked on the development of windows vista

50 million approximate lines of code

5 million testers with access to release candidate 1

3.758.096.384 bytes [3.5GB] in vista beta 2 the release of which is believed to be the largest download in history

50.000 jobs’s expected to be created by windows vista in Europe according to a survey from research firm IDC

400 million number of new PC's expected to be shipped worldwide in the next two years

368 million number of new PC's expected to be shipped worldwide loaded with windows vista

36 builds of windows vista before RC1

6 consumer versions of windows vista including upgrades

Source the official windows VISTA magazine

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