Microsoft sponsors scammers

Yesterday I had the doubtful pleasure to install Windows on a laptop. And while I didn't spent much love customizing it I at least needed a decent web browser. As someone put it the Internet Explorer is the "best browser for downloading a better browser". :) Okay, the default search engine is Bing. So let's search for "Google Chrome". And what did I see?

Microsoft is sponsoring two well-known scammers charging you lots of bucks for downloading a piece of free software! I have never trusted Microsoft personally. I doubt that this experience is changing my mind. Sometimes Google scares me for what they might do with my data. But fortunately there are still companies who without a doubt do evil.

2 Comments

srsly?

microsoft is not sponsoring here - they are *getting sponsored* for displaying ads. and its probably all automatic: BADBOY gets some advertising "credits" from the bing site (maybe like google adwords where everyone gets a free $50 trial), enters search words (chrome, download, tits) and bang - when someone searches for these, the ad link gets shown. think about it. instead of bullying you better should have sent a complaint to their abuse team, I am pretty sure the ad would have been removed in no-time because the advertised site isnt compatible with the bing advertisement TOS.