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		titzer 52 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Windows 95 user interface: A case study in usa... Microsoft had thousands of people working on Windows. Sun Microsystems had thousands of people working on Java.

zokier 52 days ago [–]

Microsoft had around 5k people in r&d in 1995. And that covered the full wide product range, win95, nt, office, visualc, sql server, and all the other stuff.

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