Microsoft Recommends Git
I was surprised to see this in MSDN documentation. I don't think it is widely known.
"Git is the default version control provider for new projects. You should use Git for version control in your projects unless you have a specific need for centralized version control features in TFVC."
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/code/overview
It appears to be dated from 2013:
https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl:https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/code/overview&as_qdr=y15 SourceSafe and TFVC suck. That's speaking as a person who's work in many a Windows dev shop and can find nice things to say about C#, .NET, IIS, Visual Studio, SQL server (even if I'd much rather administer a Unix server) Microsoft does want developers to succeed on its platform and telling them to use git will definitely help with that.