A former coworker once said that MS reps came to his school around 2013 and paid students to write apps and submit them to the windows store. He even gave them

A former coworker once said that MS reps came to his school around 2013 and paid students to write apps and submit them to the windows store. He even gave them a sample app and said "copy and paste this into a new project and submit it with a different name, we'll give you $500". They were just trying to pad the number of apps in the store to compete with Google and Apple lol