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		larrywright 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Office migration from Source Depot to Gi... I used VSS in the 90s as well, it was a nightmare when working in a team. As I recall, Microsoft themselves did not use VSS internally, at least not for the majority of things.

hpratt4 9 months ago [–]

That’s correct. Before SD, Microsoft orgs (at least Office and Windows; I assume others too) used an internal tool called SLM (“slime”); Raymond Chen has blogged about it, in passing: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97...

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