[greggyb]

50 people likely wouldn't be enough to TYPE the source code of the entirety of Microsoft products in five years. Assuming that you did no design, and simply had them copying source code as fast as they could.

    120WPM * 60minutes/hour * 16hours/day * 5workdays/week * 52weeks * 5years * 50people / 10words/line

    = 748.8M lines of code

For comparison, Google is 2B lines of code. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...

Good luck!

[iagooar]

Or, you know, you take existing open source software and adapt it to your needs?

[wyaeld]

Might be 2B lines of code now... but that's not including the version history over time. It's going to be many times that.