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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by dsjoerg on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:25PM (#10229608)
Yes you can blame them for being incorrect. If they don't have a correct and relatively up-to-date figure, they should be clear about that. "Microsoft declined to comment on how many lines of code Windows has now" or "Windows XP used 45 million lines of code, but that was 14 years ago so it's not a very good comparison to anything".
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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by highmastdon on Thursday September 17, 2015 @02:57AM (#10231959)
They're not only incorrect but also stating facts out of context. Furthermore, Microsoft doesn't have any obligation to expose their real numbers if they don't want to.

If it's ever needed to cite numbers, at least tell what the context is instead of naming some number out of the blue from 15 years ago and assuming it's still the same windows

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Re:Google Is 2B Lines of Code, All in One Place by guardian5x on Thursday September 17, 2015 @05:21AM (#10232352)
This makes me think of a parallel world, where all the big IT companies show off there LOC regularly. Starting a "LOC war", as if it would mean anything of value.
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