Doing shady stuff to juice KPIs seems like standard operating procedure at Microsoft. My favorite example of this is a few years after Windows Phone came out (w

Doing shady stuff to juice KPIs seems like standard operating procedure at Microsoft. My favorite example of this is a few years after Windows Phone came out (when it was already clear it was going to be a failure), Microsoft announced they would be paying developers $100 per app (up to 20 apps) for ANYTHING submitted to the Windows Phone store. Clearly some executive was being graded on "number of apps in the store". As expected, this resulted in Windows Phone having a wide and varied selection of apps as long as all you needed was Chuck Norris jokes, fart apps, soundboards, whack-a-mole, Simon, etc.