I remember using SourceSafe way back. It may not have been great, but it was a big improvement over "not having any" version control. :-)
I have heard horror stories about SourceSafe, namely the unreliable way it did locking.
Funniest thing about people using SourceSafe for the first time was, that they usually did a complete checkout without realizing that they just blocked the whole company from committing any changes... ;-) But I have to say, CVS was pretty bad as well, relying on permissions in the file system whether your user was able to commit a change or not. *shudder*
The Windows source tree consists of 270GB in 3.5 million source files <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-GVFS-Git-Filesystem>. The obvious question is: what does all that source code do? I suspect if you add up all the sources for the packages in Debian, it would not be that large. Yet they offer far more functionality than Windows does.
So what is all the Windows source code for? I don’t think it is a question any Microsoft engineer can answer...
Not a single person will know that, that's for sure. Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann Dept. of Computer Science University of Waikato, NZ +64 (7) 858-5174 http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ http://www.data-mining.co.nz/