p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Microsoft is cashing in on Hunger Action Month, which starts today, September 1.

With that in the background, Steve and the Boyz are targetting the dwindling numbers of people who insist on using Micro$oft IE6 to upgrade to IE8.

Says Mashable, “IE6 Must Die for the Web to Move On, the outdated browser is stifling innovation, breaking websites, and hurting the advancement of new web technology.”

All of the above.   So go to Opera. Or Firefox. Or Avant. Or one of the other browsers.

But if you absolutely must keep on using Internet Explorer 6,  Micro$oft’s, “latest (and newly extended) promotion involves donating 16 meals for every user who upgrades from IE6 to IE8 during Hunger Action Month,” says another Mashable item.

Says the Micro$oft Hunger IE8 promotion

For every download of Windows Internet Explorer 8 from this site, we will continue to donate 8 meals to feeding American. And during Hunger Action month, we will double that to donation for people upgrading from Windows Internet Explorer 6.

This would mean something if Micro$oft was making a huge, no-strings-attached, donotation, which it could easily afford to do.

Or is it already contributing through the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,  or something associated with it?

In the meanwhile, this cynical promotion is better than nothing.

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Mashable – Microsoft: IE6 Cannot Die, August 10, 2009
Mashable – Killing IE6 Helps Fight World Hunger (Really!), August 31, 2009

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