Microsoft Cancels Bing Cashback Program

pjfontillas writes "Yusuf Mehdi, Senior Vice President of Microsoft's Online Audience Business Group, recently announced, 'One of the principles we have here at Bing is to constantly experiment and learn. We do this to ensure we are keeping pace with new social and technology trends, and can continue to deliver great value for our customers and advertisers. As part of this "test-and-learn" mentality, we will be retiring the Bing cashback feature, which means that the last day you can earn cashback will be July 30, 2010.' From the look of the comments, Microsoft has at least 35 saddened users. eWeek does a follow-up attempting to explain the situation in more detail."

35 saddened users

[socsoc]

From the look of the comments, Microsoft has at least 35 saddened users.

Snarky remark in TFS slamming MS, check.

Can't have Muslim Socialist w/o MS!

[emeade]

Is MS a secret muslim socialist, racist, america hater who blew up an oil well in the Gulf? Hey, I'm just asking questions!

Picking on an autistic kid

[synthesizerpatel]

I'm 35 years old, I've been fed up with Microsoft since about Windows XP SP2 although previously not much of a fan before that.

But at this point it's just like you guys are picking on the autistic kid.

We get it. Microsoft sucks. Give it back it's helmet.

I'm Sad

[LearnToSpell]

They've given me just under a thousand bucks over the last year and a bit, including buying a Wii and an N900 (20% off each). It was easy to use, I didn't have any problems, and it's a shame they won't send me money to complete my shopping trips anymore, after I found what I needed with Google.

Cliche

[hilather]

Microsoft couldn't pay me to use bing. Literally.

Re:And no one cared

[v1]

I've actually seen a (one) user with Bing as their home page. Not sure what would cause that to happen.

your search engine of choice?
google. check
yahoo. check
dogpile. really?
bing. what?

Re:I walk among you

[Ethanol-fueled]

4/10. You lose 2 point for delusions of grandeur(God complex), 1 point for excessive length(does every line have to be double-spaced?), and 3 points for lack of offensiveness.

Please resubmit with a few racial slurs or a Mormon explanation of the fate of black people.

Bing! Should just buy Flooz...

[Klinky]

...after all that has become the defacto currency on the Internet... right? right?

Re:And no one cared

[Peet42]

I've actually seen a (one) user with Bing as their home page.

I think I saw that on television! It was something like CSI, and I thought "that's the least realistic thing they've ever shown..."