why build 5384

Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

Windows 2000 was build 2195 & Windows XP SP2 was build 2600 so I guess they carried on from there "Mario Rosario" wrote in message

Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

I'd more readily point out that 15 years ago was relatively close to NT 3.1 days than DOS.

"Mario Rosario" wrote in message

Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

? 12 years ago was windows 95 beta build. Their was a much bigger gap ,then 3 years, before the first build of DOS and windows 95 :)
So we have to assume that Microsoft make more then one build a day?
Stephan

Actually they probably had to skip a bunch of build numbers when they started longhorn. They have engineers working on several trees at once, while the initial Longhorn engineers were starting their builds, other engineers were still working on the XP branch working on SP 2, and the other bug fixes that they are building, right?
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"Mario Rosario" wrote in message Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.
? 12 years ago was windows 95 beta build. Their was a much bigger gap ,then 3 years, before the first build of DOS and windows 95 :)
So we have to assume that Microsoft make more then one build a day?
Stephan

First off the build is 5384.4 Once Beta 2 was done they started work on RC1 which is the 5400 branch. "Mario Rosario" wrote in message

Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

They started work on the RC1 branch before Beta 2 was completed ---------- Mark Dietz PROnetworks <http://www.pro-networks.org> http://imnuts.gotdns.org/blog/
SAM-R wrote:

First off the build is 5384.4 Once Beta 2 was done they started work on RC1 which is the 5400 branch. "Mario Rosario" wrote in message Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

For convenience, I used an average of 1 day per build to do the estimate.
Builds are done one after another around the clock, each build contains targeted bug fixes. Then it is sent to QA for testing.
I am guessing that it probably take 2 or even 3 days to completely build Vista from scratch. Back in the early 90s, System 5 Release 4 took almost 2 days to build. But the machines were slower then.
"Stephan Schaem" wrote in message

"Mario Rosario" wrote in message Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.
? 12 years ago was windows 95 beta build. Their was a much bigger gap ,then 3 years, before the first build of DOS and windows 95 :)
So we have to assume that Microsoft make more then one build a day?
Stephan

So you're saying this number is arbitrary.
"SAM-R" wrote in message

First off the build is 5384.4 Once Beta 2 was done they started work on RC1 which is the 5400 branch. "Mario Rosario" wrote in message Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.

Somewhat. I read in an MS blog that XP's 2600 was arbitrary in the sense that they rounded because they felt it just looked nicer for the released version. I'm serious.
Maybe somebody here remembers what the last Whistler build was.
"Mario Rosario" wrote in message

So you're saying this number is arbitrary.
"SAM-R" wrote in message First off the build is 5384.4 Once Beta 2 was done they started work on RC1 which is the 5400 branch. "Mario Rosario" wrote in message Anyone know why this is build 5384? Did they start with build 1? And if it takes 1 day to do a build then 5384 / 356 days/yr = 15 years? 15 years ago was DOS era.