MS To Give to MS - Microsoft IM Cash to Go To MS

March 02, 2007 (Computerworld) — Think Microsoft Corp. and Bill Gates are too rich? Then use the latest version of Microsoft’s free instant messaging program and watch the company donate some of that excess wealth to one of nine charities of your choice.

As part of an initiative to promote Windows Live Messenger 8.1, Microsoft will give away a percentage of the advertising revenue it gains from participating users, according to an announcement made Thursday on the software vendor’s Channel 10 product news Web site.U.S. users of WLM can choose among nine nonprofit groups: the American Red Cross, the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, the National AIDS Fund, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Ninemillion.org, the Sierra Club, StopGlobalWarming.org, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF

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