Not a big deal, right? The thing’s free and every Windows user has a copy, whether they prefer Chrome, Firefox or whatever. Well, Mac users can piss right the hell off. Bing Bar only works on IE 7.0 or later for Windows.
But if that Windows-using, IE-surfing description fits you, and I guess it still does for a lot of the global browser market, you’re good as gold. What’s that? Oh, it’s for United States residents only.
For those who are still left, head over to the Bing page to get your tool bar and your points. What you’ll actually be doing is collecting “Reward Points” but those are redeemable for all sorts of things, Microsoft Points on Xbox Live included. You can earn more for participating in daily promotions.
Earn Microsoft Points With Bing! [Xbox 360 Digest Via Joystiq]
Raja95
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 11:33 AMtoo bad i doesn’t work here in Australia since you need an American address and other stuff
Awnshegh
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 12:06 PMI thought the same until I realised it costs me less in time and effort just to pay for the 200 points than to mess with Bing.
Works on firefox
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 12:38 PMthe bing bar works with firefox as well
Yiani Mastrantonas
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 12:47 PMspeaking about free points, I still havn’t gotten my free 1200 points
Naytan
Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 4:04 PMYou say this as if we know what you’re on about.
brent3000
Friday, September 24, 2010 at 1:40 PMI dont see why the Big bar is relevent… IE has a search bar built in yet MS still push that garbage out…
Tim
Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 8:12 AMWTF
I DIDNT GET MY POINTS
Hooblehof
Sunday, December 19, 2010 at 8:39 AMI’ve been doing this since september. So far I’ve gotte $20 in points. You used to be able to redeem every 100 reward points for 100 ms points, but recently it went up to 400 reward for 400 ms points. What happens is they send a redeem code to your email account with a subject line of something like “Here is yor bing rewards order,” then you have to redeem the code via console or xbox.com. Is it worth it? I don’t mind doing the searches, I just mash the keyboard and hit enter, it takes about 5 mins to do the searches daily and I get probably about 400 points a month, give or take, depending on promotions.