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Microsoft Wants To Pay You To Use Its Windows 10 Browser Edge (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report by The Guardian: Microsoft has a new browser. It launched with Windows 10 and it's called Edge. The company says it's faster, more battery efficient and all-round better than Chrome or Firefox. You can even draw on websites with a stylus. Trouble is, not very many people are using it. So now Microsoft's trying to bribe you to switch. The newly rebranded Microsoft Rewards -- formerly Bing Rewards, which paid people for using Bing as their search engine (another product Microsoft says is better than a Google product but that very few people actually use) -- will now pay you for using Edge, shopping at the Microsoft store, or using Bing. Users of Edge who sign up to Microsoft Rewards, which is currently US-only, are then awarded points simply for using the browser. Microsoft actively monitors whether you're using Edge for up to 30 hours a month. It tracks mouse movements and other signs that you're not trying to game the system, and you must also have Bing set as your default search engine. Points can then be traded in for vouchers or credit for places such as Starbucks, Skype, Amazon and ad-free Outlook.com -- remember, if you're not paying for something, you are the product.
Fuck Micro$oft!!!
I will not. Have you seen how many viruses they have?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
Once I had a system where the power management (sleep) couldn't be turned off, and we wanted to use it for digital signage. So in about eight lines of code I turned an Arduino into a USB mouse and set it to wiggle the cursor every 5 minutes, thereby preventing the system from going to sleep.
Later, I wanted to wanted to guess someone's PIN number over night, so with a few lines of code I set the Arduino to act as a USB keyboard and type in every possible PIN, waiting a few seconds between tries.
Now, Microsoft is willing to pay me to wiggle a mouse around and occasionally click. Hmm ... :)
it sounds like you think microsoft are a bunch of selfish pricks who don't give fig for standards of behaviour, standards for technology or standards in general. I'm shocked.
What if it were a 9 foot pole that just says 10 on it?
Windows 10: free*
Edge: we'll pay *you*
Could it be that the price of Microsoft products are finally approaching their actual value?
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
We're not somehow backwards just because don't use fucking metric.
Well, umm, actually we are. The only countries in the world that don't use the metric system are the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar.
So yes, we're about as backwards as it gets in that respect.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
> Yes, because electricity is free.
An Arduino in a sleep, wake cycle like that will have average power usage of about 0.005 watts. That's $0.005 per year (one penny every two years).
> There are a lot of dumb people here.
And we just found one of them.
"tig welding" "cantilever" "bronze"
"botox" "cannabis" "dingbat"
"ion scavenger" "fluorescein"
"osmosis" "peristalsis" "cowboy bebop"
"forked code" "bonded" "lap"
You either have the worlds most amazing Saturday nights, or the most terrifying.