An archive of the chromium dev list in 2008: forty-two people, including one analyst and one intern. http://web.archive.org/web/20090204193647/http://niallkennedy.com/blog/2008/09/google-chrome-team.html …
A history of the browser wars, written in 2003 when people thought Microsoft's size made it invincible: http://ericsink.com/Browser_Wars.html …pic.twitter.com/sVsWLXqljN
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Historically MSFT did ~40/40/20% split of dev/test/PM. Factor for managers, that's ~300 coders at best.
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wasn't IE team kind of dissolved once IE6 dominated the market?
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The inefficiencies come from trying to coordinate that many ppl. Features don't work with each other etc
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Look at add-ons/plugins for example. IE _still_ hasn't gotten that right. Then compare to Chrome.
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the highlighted section alone is completely fascinating. Netscape had ~1000 staff? Amazing
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