[keithnoizu]

When I worked on Azure we had some access to the windows team data and documentation, and used an integrated build environment for some services. There are some interesting things going on under the hood mostly around building components in isolation against the spec of other libraries/services.

Also I'm a little shocked their using GIT instead of source depot in their workflow, apparently they switched in 2017. Who knew. [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/25/windows_is_now_buil...]

[gmueckl]

The switch to git was widely publicized at that time. As far as I know, the Windows team is the only large scale team using git. Facebook is using Mercurial, Gogle is using some concoctions around Perforce, I think, and is working on a Mercurial transition. And all of these attempts for trying to make DVCS work at scale are straining their respective systems to their breaking points.

[keithnoizu]

I must have been in a cave that month or something. It's a fascinating move imho considering how few people actually knew what git, svn, cvs etc. were when I worked there back in 2010. So much myopia towards outside technology but Satya and Scott Guthrie were always on top of things with a good vision of how microsoft and open source should co-exist. I legitimately regret leaving only to have ballmer leave a few weeks later followed by Satya's, who was previous vp of the division I worked in, promotion. All those unvested shares >_<