[spacewarp]

And you think with 30000 people working on this they weren't able to pull it off? I read that they needed to go over a tremendous amount of code, but they reviewed Win ME, Win 2000, Win XP, Win .NET, Office 97, Office 2000, Office XP, Office MAC (last three flavors), SQL, SMS, Exchange, IIS, and many other applications. Supposedly everything on the books as currently "supported". It's a HUGE list.

[eno_]

There are not 30,000 developers working on Windows OSs at MS. Maybe 10,000 IF you count all the associated utilities that come in the box with the OS, and not all - not even most - of those work on code where bugs would cause vulns. XP kernel coders probably number less than 1000.

One of the good things about MS is they never expanded their engineering as quockly as they could afford, and never bulked up. Instead they attack new product areas.