Named & Shamed
SOFTWARE WARNING!
Keumars Afifi-Sabet puts the boot into tech villains, jargon-spouting companies and software trying to trick you
Microsoft’s measly charity donations through Bing
Millions give to charity each year, and there are lots of ways you can do it. But we doubt many of you would have thought to do so through Microsoft. It wants to change that – which is why it’s tugging at your heart strings in search results.
Have a look at the screenshot above right. I took it on my PC after searching for ‘Google’ in Microsoft’s browser Edge. The orangutan 1 is a clear attempt to impersonate Google’s popular doodles, and not for the first time. Back in Issue 702, I mocked Microsoft for another Google-like doodle that smacked of desperation.