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Microsoft turns eco-friendly to get users on Bing

June 23, 2009 by admin · Leave a Comment 

A new competition by Microsoft is revealing the softer side of the computing giant as it announces prize money of $10,000 for the winning application in its Will Code for Green contest. Developers are invited to code a new application for search engine Bing, conforming to Bing APIs, with the theme of “economy or ecology”, a timely topic given the current push for ecological awareness in the corporate world, as well as the economic crisis currently taking place. Applications must be designed to either benefit the environment or help people deal with the poor economy, with winners to be chosen at tech conference Gnomedex in August

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Microsoft turns eco-friendly to get users on Bing