You get 20 points when you sign up for a Bing Rewards account (or 200 using the aforementioned link), and it's pretty easy to hit 100 points via newcomer tasks like linking your Facebook account. Those points can be redeemed for things like Amazon and Starbucks gift cards (525 points each for a $5 card, unless you've achieved Gold status, in which case they're 475 points), Skype credit, and, in this case, a big fat OneDrive bump. For those unfamiliar with it, Bing Rewards awards you points for things like using Bing for Web searches, clicking various Microsoft-related links, and, especially, inviting friends to use Bing Rewards (which, ahem, is good for 200 points right from the get-go). The idea, of course, is to raise awareness of both services. The standard OneDrive freebie account comes with 7GB of space, but for a limited time, you can get 100GB of OneDrive storage for one year when you "spend" 100 Bing Rewards points. OneDrive: Microsoft's admittedly decent cloud-storage service that used to be known as SkyDrive - until a lawsuit forced Microsoft to change the name six years after it launched. I can't pass up an opportunity to make fun of Microsoft, so let's dive right in.īing Rewards: Microsoft's blatant way of bribing users to use Bing instead of Google.
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