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Message: <blockquote data-quote="chaminga_d" data-source="post: 274595" data-attributes="member: 8237">Vista is 50 million lines of code. If you know a way to make that in any reasonable timeframe profitably, let me know so i can patent the method and live off it.I'm going to guess that windows' code bases are following some crazy progression for each major release. It has to be at least linear in my view, and could in fact be closer to quadratic (more stuff has to be done, and it has to interlink in more ways with other stuff, ad infinitum).Best resource I can find is this link:<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html?ex=1301115600&en=d0c82ccf5d5122fb&ei=5090" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/27/technology/27soft.html?ex=1301115600&en=d0c82ccf5d5122fb&ei=5090</a>Bung those figures into a graph and it becomes superlinear.My point being that if this is a minor release, the next version of Windows will probably be something like 60-70 million lines of code. If it's a major release, that becomes something like 100 million if not more. Making that in 2 1/2 years doesn't seem feasible to me.</blockquote>

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