From: glen mccready
To: Dead Beef <0xdeadbeef@substance.abuse.blackdown.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 17:50:50 -0400
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 13:05:01 -0400
From: Keith Bostic <bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: /dev/null@python.bostic.com
Subject: Babies born: To Date 63; Goal 75
Forwarded-by: jim@Tadpole.COM (Jim Thompson)
From: np@tadpole.co.uk (Noel Poore)
Subject: Win 95 stats
Brad had several slides to this effect during the recent Reviewer's
Workshop. Here are the interesting stats:
We had a massive Stress Testing effort underway for quite some time.
By RTM we will have created:
13 billion windows
36 billion dialogs
250 million processes
601 million print jobs
200 million Microsoft Excel charts
What we are doing now: Testing!
- 50,000 site beta program
- 70,000 MSDN Level II subscribers
- 10,000 tracked Windows 3.x upgrades
- 400,000 preview kits (>1,000,000 user since each disc grants
a license for 5 users)
- Install fairs, 10K upgrade program, home install tests
- Over 293 person-years of internal testing
Key Milestones:
Item To Date Goal
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Coffee (cups) 2,283,600 1,096,850
Trips to Starbucks 102,360 98,340
Donuts 13,800 14,900
Popcorn (lbs) 4,850 5,100
Meals provided 503 552
Babies born 63 75
Noel Poore
PC Software Development Manager Email: np@tadpole.co.uk
Tadpole Technology plc Phone: +44 1223 428200
Cambridge, England Fax: +44 1223 428201