TortoiseCVS all the way down. Nothing else came close. (this was before git and svn, kids. relax!)

Speaking of MS and source control, I have to shout out this incredibly niche channel [1] that recently covered "Microsoft Delta", a precursor and home grown effort that was eventually abandoned in favour of buying in what would become SourceSafe.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNLp_oTuNM

> Visual SourceSafe

Ugh, instant flashbacks and not the good kind.

It was my favorite VCS ever at my first workplace where we deployed .war to prod tomcat from eclipse with one click. No tests, no PRs, no tickets. Customer would call me and I could get a change out to them within 5 minutes. Most (and only!) agile workplace I ever experienced in two decades.