Soma just published some info about Microsoft “dogfooding” VS 2010 and .NET 4

There are some interesting statistics and explanation of what Soma think were critical factors to success.

Here are some statistics from our instance of TFS towards the end of the project:

  • 3,668 active users in a 14 day period
  • 896 builds per month
  • 828,978 work items, including bugs, tasks and other work that we track
  • 25,170,852 source code files under version control
  • 15.5 terabytes of data

12,000 people inside Microsoft running VS 2010 for their day-to-day development

employees installed pre-release versions of .NET Framework 4 to their desktops more than 35,000 times

Microsoft.com and MSDN deployed pre-release .NET Framework 4 on 112 servers