Set Bing as your homepage, Microsoft donates $3 to charity

[Kari]

Set Bing as your search engine, Microsoft donates $3 to charity

Help Bing Give to SchoolsSet Bing as your default search provider and we will donate $3 to help students.

Every Kid Deserves a Great Education

Every day students use Bing to explore the world, so we have a vested interest in seeing them succeed.

Choose Bing and we’ll send you a $3 donation code to use towards a public school classroom project of your choice on DonorsChoose.org. This money can give a new reader a copy of "The Wizard of Oz," an inkpad to a budding artist, or four new compasses to young urban explorers.

Bing Education : Help Bing Give to Schools

 

[MK2]

Done!

 

[DirtRider]

How do they know you have set it as your home page

 

[Kari]

How do they know you have set it as your home page

Easy. The only way to donate is to click the button on the page I linked in my original page. It sets your homepage automatically to Bing.

It's then up to you if you later decide to change back to your old homepage, or set another homepage.

Kari

 

[Win7User512]

Here is Apple's chance to bankrupt MS... LOL.

 

[Dinesh]

Done.

 

[Bootz]

But Bing has been my home page since it came out lol

 

[Petey7]

I don't care for bing but the chance to help others is too perfect. I'll do it in Firefox. It won't bother me either way.

EDIT: Never mind. Didn't realize I had to give them my email and all that jazz. I feel bad for not doing it, but I get enough junk emails.

 

[Kari]

But Bing has been my home page since it came out lol

If you already have Bing as your homepage, you have nothing to lose. Go to that page and click the button. Your homepage does not change but you've done something good.

 

[derekimo]

Also done. Good idea!

 

[Win7User512]

But Bing has been my home page since it came out lol

If you already have Bing as your homepage, you have nothing to lose. Go to that page and click the button. Your homepage does not change but you've done something good.

If it was already the homepage, they should double the donation.

 

[BomberAF]

I think to make this a more fair deal MS should give 30% of their profits to charity.

 

[Win7User512]

I think to make this a more fair deal MS should give 30% of their profits to charity.

How about 100%? They can be the next GM, Chrysler, AIG, and BP. :sarc:

 

[marsmimar]

Also done. Guess it's no big deal for MS to have my info... they've had it on file since the early days of XP . -----> For BomberAF ----->:roflmao:

 

[Kari]

I think to make this a more fair deal MS should give 30% of their profits to charity.

Seriously, both Microsoft and Bill Gates personally have done quite a lot charity. In fact, I believe there are not many companies in this world of ours donating more money.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

 

[echrada]

I don't care for bing but the chance to help others is too perfect. I'll do it in Firefox. It won't bother me either way.

EDIT: Never mind. Didn't realize I had to give them my email and all that jazz. I feel bad for not doing it, but I get enough junk emails.

I agree and I am just cynical about this - is this the way to get bigger ratings than Google?

 

[BomberAF]

I think to make this a more fair deal MS should give 30% of their profits to charity.

Seriously, both Microsoft and Bill Gates personally have done quite a lot charity. In fact, I believe there are not many companies in this world of ours donating more money.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

I do know that Bill Gaes does give loads to charity, but don't you think that the way they have offered $3 for every new customer just seems like a publicity stunt, with no other aim to to hook customers.

 

[Win7User512]

Not much difference than NBC holding Katrina telethons or CNN holding Oil Spill telethons to make advertising money.

Or companies that donate to breast cancer research for buying their product or service.

 

[Kari]

Personally, I'm willing to participate and give my email address to any publicity stunt at least trying to do some good, only exception being companies whose products and / or principals I do not accept.

 

[Thorsen]

Well with millions of people online, the possibility for everyone participating and MS honoring the deal could give a lot of money to schools. Most companies have an amount of money they donate each year because it is good, also helps their image and can lower taxes to be paid. Having an open ended $3 per person with no gaurentee of any limit is exeptional no matter what amount they eventually do pay out.