Microsoft is pledging $2 million, including $250,000 in cash and in-kind software, to Japan for earthquake relief following last week's 9.0 quake and tsunami.
The announcement comes as Bing suffers marketing backlash from Twitter users for using a quake-relief fundraising campaign to promote itself. Here is our story on the Bing backlash.
The $2 million corporate donation is in addition to other work the company is already doing to help people and businesses in Japan. Microsoft is offering temporarily free software to affected customers and partners, as well as government, nonprofit and other organizations involved with relief efforts.
The company said it is also building a cloud-based portal for disaster response based on Windows Azure. The portal allows government and nonprofits to reach each other and to communicate with citizens. Exchange Online will also be given away for 90 days to Japanese businesses whose e-mail servers are down.
Following the 2009 earthquake in Haiti, Microsoft donated $1.25 million in cash and in-kind software.
Here is Microsoft's corporate citizenship page on the Japan earthquake.
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