Comment by bariumbitmap

> In the early 2000s, Microsoft faced a dilemma. Windows was growing enormously complex, with millions of lines of code that needed versioning. Git? Didn’t exist. SVN? Barely crawling out of CVS’s shadow.

I wonder if Microsoft ever considered using BitKeeper, a commercial product that began development in 1998 and had its public release in 2000. Maybe centralized systems like Perforce were the norm and a DVCS like BitKeeper was considered strange or unproven?