Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ...
by kenjackson on Friday April 29, 2011 @07:59PM
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all told OS X and iOS combined only comes to something like 3000 engineers
That sounds about right. For Win7 about 2500 engineers (1000 devs, 1000 testers, 500 PMs). I suspect WP7 is probably 500 engineers. So Windows + WP7 is probably right around the same number.
Interesting to think that in terms of products where Apple and MS compete directly, they probably have very similar headcounts. There's a mythology that MS is this huge beast that will crush you (at least in the past). But in reality MS ships 100+ different products. The company is spread a lot thinner than lay people might imagine.
http://www.pc-wholesale.com/networking-news-a-small-army-of-...
Oh, and if you want an Apples to Apples comparison...I was there when the Server group merged with the Dev Tools group...and the merged group is maybe 300 engineers total (all of server was about 70 engineers...all told OS X and iOS combined only comes to something like 3000 engineers).
A fun little link: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=revenue+per+employee+at...