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Microsoft Donates Eight Meals For Each Internet Explorer 8 Download

OK, enough unfortunate or otherwise negative Microsoft news for today. Let’s instead focus on something good, like how the company is donating the equivalent of eight meals to the Feeding America Network for every completed download of Internet Explorer 8.

The program, called “Browser for the Better,” is connected to those wacky Dean Cain IE8 commercials that launched earlier this month.

And while the Dean Cain marketing effort will likely last forever thanks to the glorious wonder of the Internet, the charity portion of Browser for the Better only runs from June 10 to August 8. Don’t ask about the image. Apparently, for the meals to become viable, Microsoft had to truck in a bunch of artists so they could stack them into shapes resembling the Empire State Building and Golden Gate Bridge. [Neowin]

Comments (AU Comments | US Comments)

  • Alan

    just for the sake for feeding the hunger i am downloading IE8

  • matt

    Oh yeah? well if you download MY browser I’ll cure aids!
    I remember the good ole days where we used to download software cause we actually wanted to use it…

    Still I think the ends justify the means so I’m in.

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