Everybody wanted to be the one to beat me, more than if I'd been Ross Smith or Jones.

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Ross Smith, the director of testing at Microsoft, translated the problem into a game where participant-teams from different regions within Microsoft competed to find bugs in their local languages.

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Ms Ross-Smith said further investigations were planned, possibly involving more trackers attached to more birds.

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