
Keep doing this, and you’ll earn points, plus big 1,000-point and even 2.500-point bonuses once you hit milestones like the ten-week mark. Every week, you’ll have the opportunity to do the Rewards Weekly Set, with three tasks: you might simply have to log in on three successive days, or watch a trailer for an upcoming game, or accumulate three Xbox Achievements in any game. Not surprisingly, Microsoft makes playing games itself a game. Add that to the bonuses should put you at, or very near, that 7,000 figure. If you keep up with your “daily sets,” the 1,500 points you’ll receive plus the 5,100 points from searching gets you close to our target of 7,000 points. But don’t feel too bad, as some of the quizzes will automatically archive down lower in the dashboard.

Microsoft will also add bonus points for three successive days that you perform daily sets, such as 45 points per three-day streak. If you miss a day, your daily-set streak resets. Clicking each of them will generally earn you an additional 50 points a day. Every day Microsoft offers you three choices: a “daily set” of a quiz, a poll, and a fact. If you’d like, you can also gamify the process. In effect, doing nothing more than using Edge and Bing to search on your PC (30 days x 150 points, pus 30 days x 20 points = 5,100 points) will earn you the equivalent of $5 per month without any extra effort on your part. Microsoft will often “pay” you points to double your donation. You can even donate your points (and their cash value) to the World Wildlife Foundation, Girls Who Code, the American Red Cross, The Trevor Project, and more. Just some of the things you can redeem for Microsoft Rewards pointsīut the Microsoft Rewards redemption page offers all sorts of possibilities: Microsoft gift cards and Game Pass subscriptions, including Game Pass Ultimate gift cards to retailers like Amazon, Target, REI, Sephora, and Walmart food offers at Starbucks, Burger King, Dominos, UberEats, DoorDash and GrubHub. You can pay 5,000 points for a $5 Microsoft gift card, though that can only be applied to games, apps, movies/TV shows, or devices like a Surface or Xbox-not Game Pass. What can you earn with Microsoft Rewards?Īs we go through our tutorial, keep your eye on the prize: a one-month Game Pass for PC subscription is 7,000 points. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate bundles Microsoft’s Netflix-esque Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Game Pass for PC subscriptions with its Xbox Live Gold service. But why pay at all? Microsoft Rewards is the answer to that.

Game Pass for PC is part of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate’s “Netflix-for-games” subscription, which we’ve already shown can be purchased for peanuts if you know the trick. We’ll use the awesome Xbox Game Pass for PC, which costs $4.99 per month, as our target.
