I heared about this story two weeks ago on the CBC radio show "The Current" (I think). What happened is that a Toronto cop in the sexual crimes department was having a very bad day and he decided to write a letter to Bill Gates (feeling that his bad day was because of windows allowing the pictures to be shared..). Bill Gates actually read the letter and then the cop was contacted by Microsoft Canada to talk. Some microsoft guys went to the precinct to talk to the detective, he showed them 3 pictures of the worst childporn they had, the Microsoft guys only saw one, disgusted, they decided to start this project.
On a light note, the Microsoft employees who worked with the police department were very surprise to find out that the police department looked nothing like the CSI Labs.
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I heared about this story two weeks ago on the CBC radio show "The Current" (I think). What happened is that a Toronto cop in the sexual crimes department was having a very bad day and he decided to write a letter to Bill Gates (feeling that his bad day was because of windows allowing the pictures to be shared..). Bill Gates actually read the letter and then the cop was contacted by Microsoft Canada to talk. Some microsoft guys went to the precinct to talk to the detective, he showed them 3 pictures of the worst childporn they had, the Microsoft guys only saw one, disgusted, they decided to start this project. On a light note, the Microsoft employees who worked with the police department were very surprise to find out that the police department looked nothing like the CSI Labs.