Download IE8 and Feed the Poor
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been in the news a lot of the last few weeks and despite it’s trouble in the EU, the company is still pushing IE8 in the US in every way possible.
The company last week launched a program called “Browser for the Better” in association with Feeding America. Formerly known as Second Harvest, the Feeding America network provides food assistance to more than 25 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States. The organization reports that more than 17 million children in the U.S. receive free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch at school, but with summer upon us and schools closing until September, those 17 million children will lose access to the programs for three months.
Microsoft’s Browser for the Better campaign (running through to August 8) will donate the financial equivalent of eight meals to Feeding America’s network of 206 local food banks for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8.
“Our customers have told us they want to have an impact in the lives of their friends and neighbors,” said Amy Barzdukas, senior director for Internet Explorer at Microsoft. “The Browser for the Better campaign is all about making it easy for people to make a real difference. Not only are they contributing to their community, they’re getting a more secure, modern browser designed for the way people browse the Internet today.”
So if you want to make a difference, you can download Internet Explorer and sleep soundly at night, knowing that you’ve bettered the lives of eight people with just the click of a button. Is anyone planning on downloading IE8 now that you know about the program? Really, we can’t see the harm in everyone downloading it and just not using it if you’re already married to Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari.
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its such a jerk advertising move. but at least its going towards something positive. i downloaded it just for the kids MS. now back to chrome.
Linky:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/i [...] sites.aspx
Cool. I'll help out!
Correction: Here is the correct link:
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http://browserforthebetter.com/index-htm.html#getie8
(Got it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass [...] serPR.mspx )
Down rate my older comment.
THIS IS NOT the same place as the normal IE8 Download place. It's different. Knowing Microsoft I would not be surprised if the money ONLY gets donated if you DL from that Browse for the Better site.
I'm guessing you only have to just download it and not install it?
Sorry, I'm married to FF.
However, since my parents prefer IE, I gave them IE8 on their vista box, and I already have IE8 myself.
If they see their server spammed with over 100 million download requests, will they fall through with it?
Let's help hit a $1 billion chunk in M$. >
So does this feed the families of the workers they laid off?
I kid, I kid.
Helping the less fortunate is always a good idea.
i would d/l it for the cause i know whats it like to go hungry for days on end, but I will still use firefox FTW!
I guess I can see downloading IE8 just to let M$ feed some disadvantaged children. And, since IE is usually somewhat integrated into Windows, it's best to have the latest version plus all 100 updates to make sure you're safer from trojans and other viruses.
Probably won't use it, as I'm pretty happy with FoxFire.
Downloaded and instantly deleted... Viva Chrome!
sounds like great idea, im going to uninstall ie8 from my machines and then go download and install it from “Browser for the Better".
probably will download it, but wont use it much since I tend to use Firefox on Windows/Linux side and Safari on OSX side.
Let's help hit a $1 billion chunk in M$. >
Thaere's probably a max limit Microsoft will donate. My guess is that it'll be less than $1mil.
Already downloaded it months ago, so I'm very sorry, hungry kids everywhere.
Smart move, even if it stinks a little.
Nevertheless, as a designer, if it helps to extinguish IE6 from the internet, I will be glad. Too bad I'm a FF man with a mac, otherwise I would download it for the children.
So in exchange for you installing IE and all of the backdoors and security vulnerabilities that come with it, Microsoft will in exchange give a meal to one of the many families that are now hungry thanks to corporate greed and stupidity on Wall Street. How touching....
Downloaded and went strait to the trash. Unfortunately, I'm on Mac
Microsoft's maximum is 1mil, great cheep publicity for them...
Thaere's probably a max limit Microsoft will donate. My guess is that it'll be less than $1mil.
Microsoft have donated over 4billion to charities lol
Let's say :
- there is no limit and they can pay 1 billion downloads
- you can download several times from the same computer
Can anyone write a software that will download, than delete IE8 over and over again ? I would definitely download and install that program
Thanks
made 3 downloads myself... does it state anywhere that we have to install the exploder?
“Our customers have told us they want to have an impact in the lives of their friends and neighbors,”
Literally!
Really, we can’t see the harm in everyone downloading it and just not using it if you’re already married to Firefox, Chrome, Opera or Safari.
How about wasted bandwidth and time? Not to mention further contributing to OUR software rot and wasting time and energy reformatting sooner than needed.
Another good reason to not use IE
damn what a sad way to boost a bad browser.... Guilt trip people into this piece of crap... Good one ms next chump....
Yes, the poor people being fed this way are going to complain so much because Microsoft "used" them to promote their browser...
Good cause? yes, but in the end we're feeding Microsoft, who is most definitely NOT the poor.
The communist EU doesn't have people facing hunger because they steal money from intel and microsoft.
America's own people starve because Europe steals with phony fines. American corporations do what they can to help but it can't stop the tide of Europe/Obama socialism.
Intelpatriot: If socialism means spending our money on providing healthcare to all of our citizens instead of bombing the crap out of countries on the other side of the world, then I'm all for it. You wouldn't know what socialism is if you looked it up on Wikipedia. As a side note: I'm sure Intel and Microsoft are still netting a profit in Europe despite the fines, and only a complete idiot would describe the charges against Intel as phony.
"Microsoft is donating $1.15 per download to Feeding AmericaTM, up to a maximum of $1,000,000."
$1.15 = 8 meals? Are we talking Ramen on sale?
The communist EU doesn't have people facing hunger because they steal money from intel and microsoft.America's own people starve because Europe steals with phony fines. American corporations do what they can to help but it can't stop the tide of Europe/Obama socialism.
Well, i'm EU and just downloaded it. If it makes you feel any better intelpatriot most of those '25 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States' are probably Mexican anyway...
I gotta know!!! MS spent millions developing it and are now giving away money to get us to download their free browser. WHY????? What am I missing here????
Is there more to this browser war thing, like when politicians spend millions for a job that pays $60-200K a year????
m$ is getting cheaper by the day... just one million of tax deductible money?
How low can they get? To use the misfortune of others to just promote their crap... The likes of m$, greedy for more and more money, are responsible for the hard times of regular people, in the first place. Do they believe, that they could clear their heavy laden conscience - if they really have just a bit of it - with this marketing stunt?
Shame on you Jane, for promoting this BS.
No wonder, TH is hungry again for some ad money:
"Internet Explorer 8 Download Contest", prominently featured on top of every page...