[brantonb]

When I worked at Microsoft, Windows took far, far longer than an hour to build from scratch. I remember walking a few buildings over to the burn lab to pick up DVDs of the latest build. I don’t have any hard data, but running a full build on your dev box was very rarely done.

[lisper]

The dynamics of commercial projects can be very different from open-source. You're much more likely to tolerate sitting through long builds if you're being paid to do so.

[fest]

Until management notices, does the X hours saved multiplication by number of developers, and the resources for improvement will be found soon.

[cameronbrown]

Definitely not. People are far more expensive than machines.

[pretty_bubbles]

Was it just the windows kernel? Or did it include all of the utilities in Windows?