This seems like a gag that wasn't intended for production. Like an inside joke for an internal app used by MS only, which was then forgotten about when converti

This seems like a gag that wasn't intended for production. Like an inside joke for an internal app used by MS only, which was then forgotten about when converting the system to be public-facing. QA happened to not run this code path (most likely), or overlooked it due to lack of awareness of antitrust law and lack of anticipating the bad vibes.