# Microsoft's charitable giving is "PR exercise"

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/1999/10/03/microsoft039s-charitable-giving-quotpr-exercisequot/
- Published: 1999-10-03T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

IT magazine The Register claims that Microsoft “deliberately set out to use charitable
contributions to bolster its image in February this year, according to a leaked 
internal Microsoft email we have seen.”

Read The Register’s [report](http://www.theregister.co.uk/991001-000005.html).

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