Final build number?

[Brian Wescombe]

Anyone care to guess what the final build number will be? A nice round
number like XP's 2600 I reckon

 

[Mike Williams]

Anyone care to guess what the final build number will be? A nice round
number like XP's 2600 I reckon

10^100. Oh no! that's...<gurgle>

 

[Marc Nutty]

lol, it could be anything surely? I mean, any tiny update could add a 1 to
hte build number i think lol.
Well I would guess 6000 (maybe)

 

[Guest]

Anyone care to guess what the final build number will be? A nice round
number like XP's 2600 I reckon

A googolplex?

In mathematics, a googol is the name of the number 10 to the 100th power (a
1 with 100 zeroes). A googolplex is an even larger number, (a 1 with a
googol zeroes).

 

[Andyistic]

Anyone care to guess what the final build number will be? A nice round

number like XP's 2600 I reckon

I want to know is what happens to all those builds we never hear about ....
What did Microsoft do with Builds 1 to 5383?
What items go into a specific build? I'm sure they don't include the apps
like Notepad, right?

-- Andy

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

I tested a number of the builds between 1 and 5384. The interim builds like
5270, 5308, etc were "drops" available to the TechBeta folks. Most of the
builds in between are available to MS employees from the internal servers.

 

[Mike Williams]

I want to know is what happens to all those builds we never hear about ....
What did Microsoft do with Builds 1 to 5383?
What items go into a specific build? I'm sure they don't include the
apps like Notepad, right?

Well 2600 was XP.

The ones not heard about are not usually not worth looking at, or are
very close to released builds.

 

[Homer J. Simpson]

I want to know is what happens to all those builds we never hear about

....
What did Microsoft do with Builds 1 to 5383?
What items go into a specific build? I'm sure they don't include the apps
like Notepad, right?

Why would they take the basic apps like Notepad out of the interim builds?
They're all part of the internal daily builds...

 

[Andyistic]

Aren't the apps built separately?
Why recompile the same old apps when they haven't been modified at all?

-- Andy

 

[Mike Williams]

They may be calling libraries that have been altered. Notepad is pretty
much a text-edit control with a UI frame.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

2600 was not the actual final build. It was something a little less. The
story goes that the team wanted to round up (and did).

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Take them out and create dependency h*ll? I don't think so.