Apparently, Microsoft doesn’t think it needs to give back money to people who use its search engine anymore. The company is ending its ‘Cashback’ program—a staple of its marketing for two years.
With Cashback, searchers who bought selected products they found on Bing (and before that on Live) got a percentage of the purchase price back.
In a blog post, SVP Yusuf Mehdi says that “after a couple of years of trying, we did not see the broad adoption that we had hoped for,” so the program is being shut down effective July 30.
Microsoft is laying off more employees, a new round after they cut thousands last year. It seems like many big tech companies are doing the same.
Amidst the AI frenzy of 2023, major players like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are in the spotlight, launching their own generative AI systems.
Microsoft has made it easy for iPhone users to check their mobile updates on Windows-enabled computers.