The poster has posted a bunch of stuff to a London subreddit. A couple seconds on Google returns:
“Our London office primarily serves the MSN and Xbox teams, although the ground floor is set up for hot-desking to ensure that any of our employees can work from this office when they are in London.”
"Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the form
and that this was the pragmatic solution to avoid that."