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How many lines of code are in Microsoft Windows 10?

About 50 million

Background

Microsoft Windows 10 is built from roughly 50 million lines of code. For comparison, Windows XP had about 45 million lines. A person would need decades just to read through it all. Thousands of developers work on it at the same time.

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