Does Microsoft allow employees to search code across products? Which tool they use for it? #Microsoft
You need to be approved to look at code for a product. There is no “one source control platform to rule them all” at Microsoft because of lots of legacy code.
Seems kinda dumb to not allow read access to all but the most secret products.
Lot of the folks running different divisions are a product of the 90s culture that still exists in many parts of MS.
ADO based projects can be searched with ADO queries or with ReSearch, but not all product codebases are on ADO