Bill Gates was famous for this, about thirty years ago; Joel Spolsky wrote about it in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://

Bill Gates was famous for this, about thirty years ago; Joel Spolsky wrote about it in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-review/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev.... Maybe it was over the top, and I'm sure it didn't work all the time, but I feel like it would have contributed to Microsoft's success.