A reader who wishes to remain Anonymous sent us in some fun facts on XP, heres what he said in his corresponsence to us.
Hi,
I found this at the OEM SYSTEM builder website,it may be nice to post on the site.
WINDOWS INDEX
- Number of days it took to develop Windows XP: 600 (12/20/99 – 8/24/01)
- Number of focused team members: 5,736
- Number of testers per developer: 1.4
- Number of babies born during the project: 452
- Number of interns employed: 504
- Amount of macaroni consumed during 40 "Windows Info Meetings": 6,000 lbs
- Number of Frappuccino's® served: 86,400
- Dollars raised for Seattle Ronald McDonald House (local charity): $2 million
- Number of test cases for system restore feature: 1.6 million
- Number of Direct3D graphics test cases run since Windows XP RC1: 43,114,143
- Number of applications tested for compatibility: 5,500
- Number of devices supported out of the box: 12,000
- Percentage of the most popular PC applications distributed in the last three years that will be compatible with Windows XP: 90%
- Number of track in the largest Digital Media Library test case: 31,000
- Length in hours of longest single file captured by Windows Movie Maker: 114
- Number of languages we are localizing to: 24 fully & 9 partially
- Number of countries participating in the launch on 10/25: Over 50
- Number of people attending launch events worldwide: over 580,000 in seats ... plus online audiences 5,120 system builders worldwide
