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walterbates on 23 August 2016

But you also have to make Bing your default search engine to earn points in its revamped rewards program.


Almost three-quarters of Windows 10 users are not using the new operating system's default Edge browser. So Microsoft is now paying them to make the switch.

Microsoft Rewards, announced Wednesday, is a rebranding of Bing Rewards, which gave people points for using Bing as their search engine. The new program, so far only available in the US, offers points for using Edge and Bing, as well as shopping at the Microsoft store.

Points can be traded in for vouchers or credits to places like Amazon, Starbucks, Skype and the ad-free version of Outlook.com.

But there's a caveat: You have to have Microsoft's Bing set as your default search engine.

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-will-pay-you-to-use-its-new-edge-browser/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b



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malistix1985 on 23 August 2016

People have done many things for money but if they will use bing or edge for money, that seems like a longshot :D




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Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 23 August 2016

"This feature isn’t available in your region"

Well fuck you too MS



                  

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Stefan.De.Machtige on 23 August 2016

No Thanks. I'll stick with firefox and DuckDuckGo.



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walsufnir on 23 August 2016

sadly there is no edge for Linux. MS being backwards as always.



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NobleTeam360 on 23 August 2016

Been using Bing for years now, not sure I want to put Edge as my default browser though :-|



Ljink96 on 23 August 2016
walsufnir said:
sadly there is no edge for Linux. MS being backwards as always.

You can't use edge even with Wine?



walsufnir on 23 August 2016
Ljink96 said:
walsufnir said:
sadly there is no edge for Linux. MS being backwards as always.

You can't use edge even with Wine?

 

 

I didn't even try but is it a separate download with installer? I guess it heavily relies on functions wine doesn't know about.



barneystinson69 on 23 August 2016
walterbates said:

But you also have to make Bing your default search engine to earn points in its revamped rewards program.


Almost three-quarters of Windows 10 users are not using the new operating system's default Edge browser. So Microsoft is now paying them to make the switch.

Microsoft Rewards, announced Wednesday, is a rebranding of Bing Rewards, which gave people points for using Bing as their search engine. The new program, so far only available in the US, offers points for using Edge and Bing, as well as shopping at the Microsoft store.

Points can be traded in for vouchers or credits to places like Amazon, Starbucks, Skype and the ad-free version of Outlook.com.

But there's a caveat: You have to have Microsoft's Bing set as your default search engine.

http://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-will-pay-you-to-use-its-new-edge-browser/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0b

They can piss off...



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Neodegenerate on 23 August 2016

Well, I guess I can now say they couldn't get me to use that browser if they paid me - and mean it. :)