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> Which meant that he was paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites all day

Did Microsoft have a written mandate to improve the performance of these websites? How was this communicated?

No, not at all. His job was just to fix crashes. He would go through the logs and they just all happened mostly be porn sites. We used to joke that his job was to visit porn sites, but it was among a small group of developers. I wasn’t even sure of his direct manager was aware. But he was in fact being paid by Microsoft to visit porn sites :-)

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