IE8 Bests Firefox, Chrome in Nutritious Value per Download

How typical Microsoft they only care about their US costumers.
Since Microsoft is a global company any charity they support should be a global one

I don't want to be the sceptic, but I can't help but think that MS are desperate to claw-back some of the browser market and that this is their way of gett8ing some people to DL IE8.

The sad fact is, IE8 is not as good as Chrome and a lot less useful than Firefox.

Although I applaud any philithropic effort made by any company, maybe they should bring their browser up to a competitive standard if they want to compete with Chrome and Firefox instead of this.

I find this funny only because Microsoft should be doing this anyways and the fact that Mozilla spends more to help out new companies develop new products. And yet Microsoft is only doing this solely to draw people back to IE without having to actually spend the money it would take to get IE on par with the rest.

For starters Mozilla spends 100s of thousands a year on grants to help other companies out, and unlike Microsoft this isn't a limited time thing nor a way to get people to switch to Firefox without having to spend money to make Firefox better.

Microsoft does stuff like this solely so they don't have to spend the money to put their products on par with their competition. Remember Microsoft offered a rewards program to try and switch people to Live.com because they didn't at the time want to put forth the money to get Live.com on par with Google.

Microsoft spends a lot of money to help others which is good but Google spends more and fights for User's privacy which Microsoft doesn't. Mozilla spends money helping others while continuing to spend money innovating Firefox while Microsoft only spends money so they don't have to spend the money innovating. Google and Mozilla's contributions are year round while Microsoft is limited time only with their contributions.

Microsoft needs to do this stuff regardless while innovating their products not do these things so they don't have to innovate their products. Micrsoft could have the best of everything if they were willing to spend the money, and that is a fact.

While all the comments in #3 are valid, it should also be pointed out that Mozilla donated 500 million grains of rice thru the UN World Food Program which is fighting to end hunger in over 75 countries. While ,I too, commend Micro$oft for their donations it is clearly a marketing ploy to strengthen the monopoly they already hold.