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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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 European/Obama socialism.
Oh please, if Microsoft really wanted to help them they wouldn't start this months after most people already have IE8, the whole thing is a cheap scape publicity campaign. They could of done so much more.
wtf???
Oh do me a favour... all this from someone living in a country where there's a mass compensation culture, and where the administration maintains a drastically high military budget. It's not everyone else's fault that your country has a widening rich-poor gap. You could quite easily sort that if you cleaned up your own house first.
Blame the EU all you want, but if Stateside corporations can't obey the rules over here, they will be punished for it. Much like if ours did something wrong over there. And let's not forget that there's been an ongoing investigation into Intel in its own country for quite some time.
I've got IE8. I don't use it, but I have it. And I'm going to download it again if it serves to help children anywhere in the world. All using my communist EU internet connection that I pay for with my own money.
ANYONE WANNA BUY CARBON CONPENSATIONS?!
Sounds like an emotional blackmailing to me.
I have IE8 by virtue of having Win7, looks like I can't help the poor ;-;
But really, this is ridiculous, and notably flawed. What's stopping me just downloading it over and over? Would that make me a theif or a genius?
Either way, Microsoft is sinking low with this. And it's not going to pull people away from their browsers who wouldn't have already converted anyway.
Also, TeaPartHardcore, you're a fool pandering to the far right. It's sad to see people like you out in such force since the US elected Obama.
Well, I was thinking about that downloading it over and over thing, Im sure they have it protected somehow, maybe by watching the IPs of the downloaders. But it must be smt more complicated, coz otherwise I could just change proxies and save the africa
You must install the browser in order for the donation to count! If you just download IE 8 and do not run it, your contribution will not be made, so feed more people by spreading the word!
- Jake
MSFT Internet Explorer Outreach Team
Well, in that case, this article isnt right, coz it says above "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." I dont see the word install anywhere in the article