The "rewards" are US only but I'm living in Canada and I am receiving money every month or so (sometime something around CAD 30$) on my Microsoft account as I'm using Bing primarly; not sure how and why but it happens every months and it states "Microsoft reward credits". I usually end up using it to pay for my games or videos.

I was actually suprised by it at first because as you said the reward site states "US Only"...

Does using AltaVista get me anything?

Push it on everyone?  

It sounds to me like they're just offering people some nice rewards if they choose to use their free search engine service.

The same thing Sony does with their PlayStation credit card or what Nintendo does with their reward system...

I'm assuming​ you think their trying to push their services on everyone too or do you just enjoy going into pro-Microsft threads to spread hate?

I have no issue with Microsoft trying to do their own things; if I did, I wouldn't have enjoyed my Xbox and Xbox 360 and wouldn't consistently still go with Winows OS heh... That said, I still don't care for Bing and probably never will. Have at it, though.

I don't know enough about the Zune to comment on it being "millions of times better". 

I don't have a problem with anyone trying to push their service or product on people given that's the whole point of making it, it's just Bing specifically seems to have been an ongoing effort for ages now. 

My lord you Microsoft people are touchy... and I say that via a Microsoft OS (in fact three devices with three separate Windows 10 licenses) with an Xbox and Xbox360 sharing the room with me. I guess I'm just not accustomed to encountering Microsoft fanboys these days and didn't realize Bing of all things had such zealous defenders.

I'll certainly look into this when I probably get the Scorpio... it's easy enough to just use a different web browser if Bing continues to annoy. It's a good deal, and I did not mean to imply it isn't.

Only in combination with Netscape Navigator.

The real question here is why you aren't using pornhub for all your fuck video needs.

I use Bing exclusively. Best search engine available and definitely more attractive than Google. I get better search results and i have accumulated nearly 100,000 Bing Rewards points. I also have the newest Windows Phone so that definitely helps. I suggest everyone use Bing for the daily image alone. I was so happy my school changed its search engine default over to Bing from Google. 

That moment when you pay your yearly subscription by giving Microsoft your search history for them to sell it to third parties. Not sure I would make that trade.

LuL